Re: [LUG] OT: MS security whitewash

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Subject: Re: [LUG] OT: MS security whitewash

From: Philip Hudson <phil.hudson@xxxxxxxxx>

Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2013 08:18:51 +0000

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On 8 December 2013 16:52, Martijn Grooten <dcglug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Are you able to point me to this 'evidence' when it comes to Microsoft's operating systems? For I don't remember seeing it. And my, I have spent a lot of time reading about the Snowden leaks.

From http://freesnowden.is/revelations/index.html:
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Microsoft data centres may also have been NSA targets

Two slides and an email indicate that Microsoft services including Hotmail, Windows Live Messenger and Passport may have been targets of the NSA project Muscular, which previous reports revealed to have infiltrated Google and Yahoo datacentres.
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These programs may not technically be part of the OS, but they are more or less tightly integrated with it in the MS style, are they not? I think you're splitting hairs. The point about the absolute untrustworthiness of non-free software in general and Microsoft in particular is not only perfectly valid but incontrovertible.

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