Revealed: how Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages by Glenn Greenwald, Ewen MacAskill, Laura Poitras, Spencer Ackerman and Dominic Rushe in today’s issue of the Guardian.
From the story:
Microsoft has collaborated closely with US intelligence services to allow users’ communications to be intercepted, including helping the National Security Agency to circumvent the company’s own encryption, according to top-secret documents obtained by the Guardian.
The news goes down hill from there. See the full story for all the gory details.
Not that encryption is and of itself any type of security.
After all, the NSA has all sorts of encryption, physical security, etc. and it was defeated by a USB thumb drive.
Makes you wonder if anyone with a USB thumb drive loaded false data into the NSA computers?
What is your means of tracking data provenance?