Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 08:01:35 -0400
From: mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us>
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject: [WSFA] How Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

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.

Excerpt:
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.

The documents show that:

=95 Microsoft helped the NSA to circumvent its encryption to address conc=
erns
that the agency would be unable to intercept web chats on the new
Outlook.com portal;

=95 The agency already had pre-encryption stage access to email on
Outlook.com, including Hotmail;

=95 The company worked with the FBI this year to allow the NSA easier acc=
ess
via Prism to its cloud storage service SkyDrive, which now has more than =
250
million users worldwide;
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<http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/11/microsoft-nsa-collaboration-=
user-data>

mark "don't use Outlook"

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