More Encryption Is Not the Solution

Re:More Encryption Is Not the Solution by thufry on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @04:08AM (#6132435)

This author reaches pretty far. The NSA paid Microsoft to acquire Skype? You can't just materialize multiple billions of dollars on a public company's income statement.

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Re:More Encryption Is Not the Solution by RyanZAG on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @04:15AM (#6132449)

You can indeed. The figures are very large and you cannot view item level detail in the financials, only general concepts. The NSA may be propping up the Azure division or one of countless others through backroom deals over this type of thing.

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Re:More Encryption Is Not the Solution by silvestrov on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @05:04AM (#6132578)

In addition to selling extra-high priced items to NSA/Military/Government, the Government could allow the company tax breaks it wouldn't get otherwise.

Tax rules for a company of the size of Microsoft are not simple. It's not impossible to hide stuff.

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Re:More Encryption Is Not the Solution by lrei on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @04:20AM (#6132463)

Doesn't seem that hard. It could show up as "department of agriculture/energy/..." bought X million licenses of windows and office spread out over years, a few friendly countries, a few front corporations...

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