> Stamos was chief security officer at Yahoo from March 2014 > to July 2015. One of his first moves was to enforce HTTPS > encryption for Yahoo Mail and other Yahoo online services.
Yahoo Mail wasn't running over HTTPS until sometime in 2014?
Seriously?
The Snowden leaks were in 2013. People forget just how far we’ve come since then. According to this source [0], adoption was < 30% in 2014.
It wasn’t until the Snowden leaks that companies realized encryption could be a marketing point.