Posted on 06/22/2014 10:23:16 AM PDT by 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."
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You sleep with dogs you’re gonna get fleas. Sounds like they do like the consequences of their choices and behavior. TSK TSK.
Huawei is already destroying Cisco in every region but North America.
The areas of US dominance are becoming narrower every year. Eventually it will hit Wall Street and finance.
The Republicans are in lock step with this too.
“Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.”
They’re lying through their teeth. They’ve been part of the government plan since day one. Now that it’s out there they’re trying to convince everyone they didn’t know about it. That’s as believable as Lerner’s hard drive crashing.
Jindal said the people are ready to revolt against Washington. I’d like to see him take it a step further and lead the revolt.
Why do you think the District of Criminals is arming up every department and agency? They know its on its way.
I'm not sure what makes some folks think this is some kind of partisan issue.
Microsoft was providing backdoors to their products under both democrat and republican administrations. This is not about partisan politics. and It's not about Obama. It's about a feral government (at all levels) that essentially has decided the 4th and 5th amendments just simply no longer apply.
People trying to turn this into some kind of political partisan are really just helping to cloud the issue.
Considering microsoft has been shipping windows with a back door for the NSA since windows came out, they deserve what happens.
Here are only a few choices of many.
Designed to be easy for children to use. Autorun CDROM, so no need to install.
http://www.doudoulinux.org/
Easy to use, especially for the elderly
http://www.ordissimo.com/
Parsix is a live and installation DVD
http://www.parsix.org/
Univention Corporate Server - easy to operate
http://www.univention.de/
Finnix is a self-contained, bootable Linux CD distribution (”LiveCD”) for system administrators
http://www.finnix.org/
Embedded Debian
http://www.emdebian.org/
Kanotix (Germany)
http://www.kanotix.com/changelang-eng.html
KNOPPIX (Germany)
http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html
Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE)
http://www.linuxmint.com/download_lmde.php
Morphix is designed as a modular framework to easily create and customize livecd’s
http://www.morphix.org/
Parsix “...ready to use, easy to install, desktop and laptop optimized operating system” with newer drivers, software, etc.
http://www.parsix.org/
OpenBSD, probably the most secure
http://www.openbsd.org/
Runs on many kinds of machines and appliances
http://www.netbsd.org/
Those companies had a choice and did choose. There’s much news on personal privacy, security issues and practices behind the following link.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Defending Your Right in the Digital World
https://www.eff.org/
Yup.
And the sad thing is, the NSA spies on them just as much. It’s tentacles are truly global.
WARNING: THIS POST HAS BEEN FLAGGED AT FORT MEADE FOR FUTHER ANALYSIS
dictatorships are just like trains running full out with no brakes
No Really. You have to threaten to report Nully to the mods for being a NSA plant, a DU troll, BATF agent, member of the trilateral commission, an ISIS sleeper, etc. in a real post or forget it. :)
Freepmail suffices.
Noted.
One gets extra point for creativity, public or private...
The US government can find and read everone’s emails, but not their own.
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