Microsoft helped defeat encryption for NSA on Outlook, SkyDrive, Skype

Hotair ^ | 07/12/2013 | Ed Morrissey

[SeekAndFind]

I’d call this another reason to go Mac, except that Apple also cooperated with NSA in accessing customer activities. Second look at Linux?

Microsoft has collaborated closely with US intelligence services to allow users’ communications to be intercepted, including helping the National Security Agency to circumvent the company’s own encryption, according to top-secret documents obtained by the Guardian.

[PATRIOT1876]

We could ask Nicholas Cage to give us tips on Code Talking...

[Texas Fossil]

Bump

[max americana]

that the IRS would not tax him extremely for being a 1%er.

[Texas Fossil]

Yah-ta-hey

[max americana]

It can still be tracked IF the e-mail comes from a steady IP address. That’s what those clowns in the ESPN forums are contemplating because all comments on ESPN will switch to facebook on the 17th.

[Buckeye McFrog]

No terrorist is gonna use a steady IP address.
If you want to round up terrorists, head for Starbucks.

[Elvina]

Linux? Have been using it since 1994, and I am 65 years old now. Built my first PC in 1982

Well, in an ironic Old Tech Twist, you are way ahead of me!

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Two things - MS can do this, that or the other thing but anyone could get an open source encryption program, encrypt any arbitrary text msg and paste it into an Outlook msg, store it on a Sky Drive etc.

To the poster who feels that there is safety in posting to/from a made up FB account from Starbucks - that seems more like wishful thinking to me. I suspect that there are ways of figuring that one out - my hunch would be that there are ways of correlating seemingly unrelated data sources and looking for patterns and red flags. Also - using a public wifi network is inherently insecure if you really want to get technical about it.

[Texas Fossil]

Pick up an old computer to experiment with. Download a CD for a distribution of linux. An easy one to install would be Xubuntu. It will run on slower older machines quite well.

Try it, you might like it.

There are tons and tons of apps for Linux.

You might go to http://www.linuxlinks.com to get a little background. It is really not hard. But if you ask around at the local high school, I bet you could find a young computer enthusiast who could help you get started. Or some other over the hill tech type.

[null and void]

Just communicate in arabic, they never look at those messages, that would be racis...

[Still Thinking]

Companies have no principles they’re willing to take risks for anymore (maybe because they’re anonymously corporately owned and merely “managed” rather than being the business arm of a specific individual or group of individuals).

Google cooperated with the Chinese in enforcing the Great Firewall; would you expect any better from muSoft in dealing with the government of their home country?

[GraceG]

If you want to round up terrorists, head for Starbucks.

Didn’t we already have a conversation about droning coffee shops?

[Still Thinking]

To the poster who feels that there is safety in posting to/from a made up FB account from Starbucks - that seems more like wishful thinking to me. I suspect that there are ways of figuring that one out - my hunch would be that there are ways of correlating seemingly unrelated data sources and looking for patterns and red flags. Also - using a public wifi network is inherently insecure if you really want to get technical about it.

You could probably make that one work, but you better anonymize your MACID (network card serial number) and be disciplined about not checking your real e-mail, logging on to FR, etc., without re-anonymizing or de-anonymizing.

[Still Thinking]

My computer doesn’t like MS Internet Explorer or Outlook.

Your computer has good taste!

[wally_bert]

And how to ruin plots of potentially decent movies.

[Still Thinking]

But that only gives them traffic analysis without any content (which I think I heard them claiming is all they’re doing on phone calls without a warrant anyway), and you can even defeat that with a fake return address.

[af_vet_rr]

To the poster who feels that there is safety in posting to/from a made up FB account from Starbucks - that seems more like wishful thinking to me.

Posting from public places probably sets off a lot more flags.

[TexasRepublic]

Bingo!

[Triple]

Isn’t there a law (maybe FOIA) that says you are entitled to see all records the government is keeping on you? (if not under an active criminal investigation)

If so, I have an idea that could shut this down.

We get a freeper lawyer to post the form and process for making such requests, and we do a records access drive/protest.

We could cripple their capabilities, lawfully, by taxing their tyrannical system with lawful requests.

Let’s freep the NSA.

Anyone?

(Please forward or ping to anyone that could be helpful.)

[RegulatorCountry]

Maybe you should change your screen name to Septuple.