Yahoo recently announced that it will encrypt webmail by default, and today Marissa Mayer shared that the security measure will be applied across all Yahoo products "by the end of Q1 2014." In a post on the company Tumblr, CEO Mayer outlined three specific measures to protect user data:
Encrypt all information that moves between our data centers by the end of Q1 2014;
Offer users an option to encrypt all data flow to/from Yahoo by the end of