Posted on 11/27/2013 6:01:24 AM PST by expat_panama
Microsoft 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 company’s deliberations. They said top Microsoft executives are meeting this week to decide what encryption initiatives to deploy and how quickly.
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Our tax dollars at work...
BS. They’ve been giving it all away to the NSA along with Google and all the rest of them. This is probably just a feel-good ploy for the users, and probably a reason they can raise the prices for doing really much of nothing.
Yes it’s BS, and for now the government is giving them leeway to say whatever, but in the end, they cannot withstand the pressure that will put on them. In affect, they’re only paying us lip service.
What Apple, Facebook, Google and Microsoft are concerned about is the fact that traffic between its various server farms—which run off connections not available to the general public—are being spyed upon because the intra-server traffic is generally not encrypted. Now, the firms I mentioned will have to encrypt all intra-server traffic to stop this snooping.
Sure, but who will know whether it’s effective? The NSA has their finger everywhere already, the fibers were just an obvious weak link. Do you really believe they’ll just say “oh well!” And give up???
The article is talking about Microsoft’s internal network, not the services they provide to their customers over the public internet.
Gee....worried about INTERNAL comms but gives the crap away to NSA on the public stuff? Now that’s real nice, huh?
SUSPECTING? Microsoft is SUSPECTING NSA spying? LOL!
What a steaming load of BS...!
Microsoft was the VERY FIRST to sign into PRISM...! I’m no apple Nazi but to their credit they were the last holdout from among the biggies.
I see this as just PR positioning.
We need that Casablanca “I am shocked!”-photo here.
OH SURE MICROSOFT IS CONCERNED.
Who believes Microsodt didn’t know or that it isn’t collaborating actively with the NSA? This is a feint to civil libertarians that is designed to conceal its partnership with the. Obama government.
I find it hard to believe that MS isn’t using TLS between sites. They must be otherwise they wouldn’t be ‘searching’ on an encryption solution since TLS and router encryption are built in features of their equipment and software.
This is likely extra-judicial NSA cracking their TLS and router encryption so MS has to find a unique bulk-encryptor solution to secure their trunks. They’ll probably cook their own using a custom set of algorithms and a random character generator key set program however NSA will eventually crack that too. Should be interesting.
“Ed, Joanna from accounting told me there are doughnuts in the staffroom in A320...”
“Score, bro. Thx playa..;). “
GENERAL, MICROSOFT HQ IN REDMOND HAS DOUGHNUTS IN A320, SIR..!
Human nature, I’m afraid.
Criminals shooting people in the slums - gee, that’s too bad.
Criminals shooting in my neighborhood - where are the *&*&)) cops?!!
They’re collaborating to give away ~your information~ not their corporate information.
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