How Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages

Re:How Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages by jaimzob on Thursday July 11, 2013 @05:41PM (#6029419)

Honest question: how does that article contradict that statement? Everyone is bouncing off the walls about this but I honestly can't see where the story is. Microsoft + others enable NSA to access customer data when presented with court order. You can agree or not agree but is it really a shock?

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Re:How Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages by bigiain on Thursday July 11, 2013 @07:08PM (#6029881)

I'm probably overly sensitive to this, being a "non-US person", but I'm constantly reading "with a court order" as "either with a court order, or with a 51% suspicion that one of the two parties to the communication is not a US citizen - in which case we can do what we like"

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Re:How Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages by ig1 on Thursday July 11, 2013 @05:52PM (#6029493)

Providing integration to make access easier is part of a voluntary NSA program (Twitter has said they refused to participate).

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