Yahoo secretly built a custom software program to search all of its customers incoming emails for specific information provided by US intelligence officials, according to people familiar with the matter. The request came in the form of a classified edict sent to the companys legal team that asked Yahoo to search incoming correspondence for something specific (it isnt clear what though.) Yahoo did, however, offer a brief though not very insightful statement:Yahoo is a law abiding company, and complies with the laws of the United States.”]