And there it is. They claim ignorance to NSA data tapping of their servers but are in fact entirely complicit as we suspected.
And there's the direct link to complicity in PRISM - is that new?
They can help implement PRISM for the government without being told what PRISM is. When asked if they are participating in PRISM, they can deny knowledge of it existing. Because it's technically true.
They did? Interested in the link/reference if you have it.
>our compliance team examines all demands very closely
> To be clear, Microsoft does not provide any government with blanket or direct access to SkyDrive, Outlook.com, Skype or any Microsoft product.
Not hugely direct but seems to be contradicted by the document.
Nothing about the document suggests blanket or direct access.
This new capability will result in a much more complete and
timely collection response from SSO for our Enterprise
customers.
How long until Windows OS is going to be monitored?
That doesn't mean it goes 'upstream'. But it is startling how far we've come. I remember the days when nobody trusted the internet - not even with their credit card.
Now its hard to trust your Operating System to run a program.
Now its hard to trust your Operating System to run a program.
That said, I do use Debian or Slackware on other machines and my laptop.
I could use Wine I suppose but it's not ideal.
What was the name of this doc? There is some date incongruity here, unless Ed got his old job back.
[0]https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/08/the_us_intell...
July 31, 2012
Microsoft (MS) began encrypting web-based chat with the introduction of the new outlook.com service. This new Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption effectively cut off collection of the new service for FAA 702 and likely 12333 (to some degree) for the Intelligence Community (IC). MS, working with the FBI, developed a surveillance capability to deal with the new SSL. These solutions were successfully tested and went live 12 Dec 2012.
March 7, 2014
PRISM now collects Microsoft Skydrive data as part of PRISM'S standard Stored Communications collection package for a tasked FISA Amendments Act Section 702 (FAA702) selector. This means that analysts will no longer have to make a special request to SSO for this - a process step that many analysts may not have known about. This new capability will result in a much more complete and timely collection response from SSO for our Enterprise customers. This success is the result of the FBI working for many months with Microsoft to get this tasking and collection solution established. "SkyDrive is a cloud service that allows users to store and access their files on a variety of devices.
March 15, 2013
SSO's PRISM program began tasking all Microsoft PRISM selectors to Skype because Skype allows users to log in using account identifiers in addition to Skype usernames. Until now, PRISM would not collect any Skype data when a user logged in using anything other than the Skype username which resulted in missing collection; this action will mitigate that. In fact, a user can create a Skype account using any e-mail address with any domain in the world. UTT does not currently allow analysts to task these non-Microsoft e-mail addresses to PRISM, however,