Microsoft openly offered cloud data to the NSA

[anuseems]

Microsofts cooperation with the NSA and FBI on the controversial Prism program has been laid bare in a new book written by an American journalist who brought it to public attention in the first place.

Glenn Greenwald, the American journalist who worked extensively with Edward Snowden, wrote in a new book that Microsofts cloud services allowed the National Security Agency [NSA] to collect data from a range of its different cloud options.

"Beginning on 7 March 2013, Prism now collects Microsoft SkyDrive data as part of Prism's standard Store Communications collection package for a tasked FISA Amendments Act Section 702 [FAA702] selector, stated a slide released by Greenwald, according to Cloud Pro.

It is detailed in Greenwalds new book, No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA and the Surveillance State, and goes on to hint that Microsoft was implicit in the NSA data collecting process.

"This success is the result of the FBI working for many months with Microsoft to get this tasking and collection solution established," the document stated.

Part of the reason that it was able to do this was down to the FISA Amendment Act of 2008 that legalized NSA Internet surveillance and allowed warrantless wiretapping by the NSA and related agencies.

"This means that analysts will no longer have to make a special request to SSO for this. This new capability will result in a much more complete and timely collection response from SSO for our enterprise customers," the documents added.

Other sabotage methods employed by the NSA and outlined in Greenwalds book include the supply-chain interdiction, which meant intercepting various communications products in order to carry out covert surveillance. This included routers and servers made by Cisco and involved implanting beacons before the products were repackaged and shipped out to customers across the world.

"While American companies were being warned away from supposedly untrustworthy Chinese routers, foreign organizations would have been well advised to beware of American-made ones," Greenwald said.

http://betanews.com/2014/05/16/microsoft-openly-offered-cloud-data-to-the-nsa/

Edited May 17, 2014 by anuseems

[OrbingStorm]

I hope everyone takes their business elsewhere.To me this is unacceptable and should be illegal.I bet new in car software will be the next thing as well as the tv ect,Also can microsoft blame anyone for worrying about the kinect spying on u as well.Also I cant believe that its all done to catch terrorists.It doesnt make any sense.

Edited May 17, 2014 by OrbingStorm

[The Owl]

But is anyone really surprised?

personally anything I want to store is held on a machine in a location of my choosing (in fact it's about two feet from me but not on the machine I am using now) that is only accessible to people I trust.

[dcs18]

Most Organizations are crooks one way or the other - however, Microsoft are known crooks when it comes to selling their souls to the devil. <_<

About the cloud - this is just one of the many other reasons why I refuse to subscribe to the cloud technology (and services) not limited to just Microsoft. :thumbsdown:

[MidnightDistortions]

This a good reason to avoid MS and the Cloud.

[Roy W]

"Nowhere to hide" anymore.

[iih1]

as dcs18 said cloud technology (and services) not limited to just Microsoft..

many of cloud services. I never use MS cloud.

[212eta]

Most Organizations are crooks one way or the other - however, Microsoft are known crooks when it comes to selling their souls to the devil. <_<

About the cloud - this is just one of the many other reasons why I refuse to subscribe to the cloud technology (and services) not limited to just Microsoft. :thumbsdown:

100% agree! :yes: :clap:

[lurch234]

About the cloud - this is just one of the many other reasons why I refuse to subscribe to the cloud technology (and services) not limited to just Microsoft. :thumbsdown:

Amen to that, my brother!