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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSuspecting NSA spying, Microsoft to ramp up efforts to encrypt its Internet traffic
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/microsoft-suspecting-nsa-spying-to-ramp-up-efforts-to-encrypt-its-internet-traffic/2013/11/26/44236b48-56a9-11e3-8304-caf30787c0a9_story.html?wpisrc=al_nationalMicrosoft is moving toward a major new effort to encrypt its Internet traffic amid fears that the National Security Agency may have broken into its global communications links, said people familiar with the emerging plans.
Suspicions at Microsoft, while building for several months, sharpened in October when it was reported that the NSA was intercepting traffic inside the private networks of Google and Yahoo, two industry rivals with similar global infrastructures, said people with direct knowledge of the companys deliberations. They said top Microsoft executives are meeting this week to decide what encryption initiatives to deploy and how quickly.
Documents obtained from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden suggest but do not prove that the company is right to be concerned. Two previously unreleased slides that describe operations against Google and Yahoo include references to Microsofts Hotmail and Windows Live Messenger services. A separate NSA e-mail mentions Microsoft Passport, a Web-based service formerly offered by Microsoft, as a possible target of that same surveillance project, called MUSCULAR, which was first disclosed by The Washington Post last month.
Suspicions at Microsoft, while building for several months, sharpened in October when it was reported that the NSA was intercepting traffic inside the private networks of Google and Yahoo, two industry rivals with similar global infrastructures, said people with direct knowledge of the companys deliberations. They said top Microsoft executives are meeting this week to decide what encryption initiatives to deploy and how quickly.
Documents obtained from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden suggest but do not prove that the company is right to be concerned. Two previously unreleased slides that describe operations against Google and Yahoo include references to Microsofts Hotmail and Windows Live Messenger services. A separate NSA e-mail mentions Microsoft Passport, a Web-based service formerly offered by Microsoft, as a possible target of that same surveillance project, called MUSCULAR, which was first disclosed by The Washington Post last month.
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Suspecting NSA spying, Microsoft to ramp up efforts to encrypt its Internet traffic (Original Post)
RKP5637
Nov 2013
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pipoman
(16,038 posts)1. Microsoft has been completely complicit in .gov intrusion
since the 90's...
RKP5637
(67,111 posts)2. That's what I was thinking ... I saw this as probably more of a marketing ploy by MS than
sudden concern. I've not used MS products for years for a number of reasons.
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)3. It does sound like a MS marketing ploy
Ranks right up (or down) there with "school reform"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024099636
RKP5637
(67,111 posts)4. Yep, it's divisive, would not expect less from MS. Dumped them years ago. n/t