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James C
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Microsoft openly offered cloud data to the NSA

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Microsoft openly offered cloud data to the NSA

http://betanews.com/2014/05/16/microsof ... o-the-nsa/

[quote]Microsoft’s cooperation with the NSA and FBI on the controversial Prism program has been laid bare in a new book written by an American journalist who brought it to public attention in the first place.

Glenn Greenwald, the American journalist who worked extensively with Edward Snowden, wrote in a new book that Microsoft’s cloud services allowed the National Security Agency [NSA] to collect data from a range of its different cloud options.

"Beginning on 7 March 2013, Prism now collects Microsoft SkyDrive data as part of Prism's standard Store Communications collection package for a tasked FISA Amendments Act Section 702 [FAA702] selector,

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#2 Post by ThoriumBlvd »

So a 35 Character 1024bit Crypto ain't gonna make... is that what you're saying?
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#3 Post by slavvo67 »

I doubt there is any large or even mid-sized U.S. firm that does not give the NSA what they want. Whether it's publicly know or not is the question...

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