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Ah, I just reread that article and now I see:

"The current and former employees say he inspired a small team of young engineers to develop more secure code, improve the company’s defenses — including encrypting traffic between Yahoo’s data centers"

So that makes more sense now, I guess it's possible to spend that much on "encryption". People and processing power are expensive I suppose.



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