Microsoft: NSA security fallout 'getting worse' ... 'not blowing over'(Double-digit declines)

The Register ^ | 6/19/2014 | The Register

[Dallas59]

Microsoft's top lawyer says the fallout of the NSA spying scandal is "getting worse," and carries grim implications for US tech companies.

In a speech at the GigaOm Structure conference in San Francisco on Thursday, Microsoft general counsel Brad Smith warned attendees that unless the US political establishment figures out how to rein in its spy agencies, there could be heavy repercussions for tech companies

"What we've seen since last June is a double-digit decline in people's trust in American tech companies in key places like Brussels and Berlin and Brasilia. This has put trust at risk," Smith said.

"The longer we wait or the less we do the worse the problem becomes," he explained. "We are seeing other governments consider new procurement rules – procurement rules that could effectively freeze out US-based companies."

[max americana]

LOL, these obama ass-kissing clowns happily provide the backdoor to the NSA.

[GSWarrior]

Paging John Galt.....

[driftdiver]

Happy or not they didn’t have a choice.

[Rapscallion]

Obama must resign! The sooner the better.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Ain't Cloward-Piven grand?

The more stupid things you do, the better it works.

[VanDeKoik]

You dance with the devil, he steps on your toes.

Next time dont let the idiot hipsters in your companies get you to support people that are bad for business.

[for-q-clinton]

Not happily but they had to and they weren’t allowed to tell anyone.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Government worried about citizen uprising
http://www.wnd.com/2013/10/government-worried-about-citizen-uprising/

[freedomfiter2]

Snowden wasn’t allowed to say anything either. He did the right thing.

[Political Junkie Too]

So the NSA is handing the cloud-based industry to the Europeans because nobody trusts cloud services based in the United States?

-PJ

[Paine in the Neck]

What a surprise. People don’t like doing business with weasels who facilitate spying on them.

[GOPJ]

After 9/11 the American people gave privacy keys out in exchange for safety. NSA, Homeland, CIA and FBI abused that trust.

It's as if your home was robbed and you gave neighbors your spare set of keys to ‘check on things’ while you were on vacation.

Then discovered your trusted neighbors had gone through your belongings - taken what they wanted and found personal items they shared with your friends, co-workers and neighbors.

That's what the NSA, CIA and Homeland did - they went nuts and the abused power that had been given to them...

Yes, we feared radical Muslims... No, that doesn't give Homeland, NSA, CIA, EPA, etc the right to rummage thorough our under ware drawers, emails and private conversations....

The world's making the right call... the creeps are NOT to be trusted with this level of power. It's hurting tech company's reputations here at home too. As it should.

[null and void]

Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!

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[null and void]

Not happily

Source please?

[GOPJ]

Can you add me to your ping list? Thanks null...

[null and void]

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[GOPJ]

What a surprise. People don’t like doing business with weasels who facilitate spying on them.

Yeah, who woudda thunk it?

[GOPJ]

LOL - done.

[null and void]

Where?