Microsoft gave the National Security
Agency easy access to encrypted web chats, Skype video calls and messages and Microsoft’s cloud storage service, SkyDrive, according to documents published by the UK Guardian. Top secret documents provided by former National Security Agency Edward Snowden show that Microsoft enabled the agency to intercept web chats by circumventing Outlook.com’s encryption. In addition, the “agency already had pre-encryption stage access to email on Outlook.com, including Hotmail,” the Guardian reports. This means that NSA analysts intercepting messages from Outlook.com did not have to decrypt the messages that might have been encoded to avoid privacy intrusions from eavesdroppers. http://dailycaller.com/2013/07/11/report-microsoft-gave-nsa-unencrypted-access-to-outlook-com-skype-skydrive/
Agency easy access to encrypted web chats, Skype video calls and messages and Microsoft’s cloud storage service, SkyDrive, according to documents published by the UK Guardian. Top secret documents provided by former National Security Agency Edward Snowden show that Microsoft enabled the agency to intercept web chats by circumventing Outlook.com’s encryption. In addition, the “agency already had pre-encryption stage access to email on Outlook.com, including Hotmail,” the Guardian reports. This means that NSA analysts intercepting messages from Outlook.com did not have to decrypt the messages that might have been encoded to avoid privacy intrusions from eavesdroppers. http://dailycaller.com/2013/07/11/report-microsoft-gave-nsa-unencrypted-access-to-outlook-com-skype-skydrive/ 