Microsoft Worked Closely with NSA, Documents Show

Arutz Sheva7 - Israel National News ^ | First Publish: 7/12/2013, 5:13 AM | Elad Benari

[haffast]

Microsoft has collaborated closely with U.S. intelligence services to allow users' communications to be intercepted, including helping the National Security Agency to circumvent the company's own encryption, top-secret documents obtained Thursday by the British Guardian show.

The files provided by Edward Snowden illustrate the scale of co-operation between Silicon Valley and the intelligence agencies over the last three years.

They also shed new light on the workings of the top-secret Prism program, which was disclosed by the Guardian and the Washington Post last month.

According to the Guardian, the documents show that:

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[haffast]

Tap, tap, tap.....kin u see me?!!

[Mastador1]

Microsoft, Apple, Verizon, AT&T, you name it.

[madison10]

Very good reason to not use Microsoft Defender. It probably has a leak as huge as the Grand Canyon.

[Whenifhow]

Snowden Says Microsoft Working Closely With US Intelligence To Make It Easy To Spy On ALL Customers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsTR2pnLG8o

[RockyTx]

OK,
who didn’t at least suspect this?

[Wiggins]

Microsoft, Apple, Verizon, AT&T, you name it.

Precisely! People will come out and say they will never support another Microsoft product because of this like there is an alternative out there. I said it before that I have run out of products to boycott.

[SecondAmendment]

Criminal organizations helping each other ....

[null and void]

I wouldn't doubt they provided similar assistance to China, Russia and Iran.

Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!

To get onto The Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping List you must threaten to report me to the Mods if I don’t add you to the list...

[TArcher]

"ERRORS CEASING TO BE DANGEROUS BE DANGEROUS WHEN IT IS PERMITTED FREELY TO CONTRAD..." click click {static}

 

CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?

[TArcher]

ALL YOUR BASE C#LASSES ARE BELONG TO US!

[madison10]

There is at least OpenOffice now, but other OS are not that easy to come by.

[Wiggins]

My last MS office suite was 2007. I would never purchase another MS Office product again at the present prices. Now I use open office. It’s really all I need. We use mostly spread sheets and word processing so open office is good enough and the price is right. I don’t even mind paying but office 2013 is just too expensive.

[SubMareener]

Remember when the Feds went after Microsoft for Anti-Trust violations? At the time we thought it was all about their not having lobbyists who passed out political contributions. Then the charges seemed to be dropped, and the Feds continued to use Microsoft products in a big way. Maybe it was a shakedown to get Microsoft to play nice with the NSA?

[bgill]

Now you know what all those Microsoft automatic updates really are.

[null and void]

Yep.