{"id":49532,"date":"2013-07-11T19:39:40","date_gmt":"2013-07-11T18:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/revealed-how-microsoft-handed-the-nsa-access-to-encrypted-messages\/49532\/"},"modified":"2013-07-11T20:04:01","modified_gmt":"2013-07-11T19:04:01","slug":"revealed-how-microsoft-handed-the-nsa-access-to-encrypted-messages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/revealed-how-microsoft-handed-the-nsa-access-to-encrypted-messages\/","title":{"rendered":"Revealed: How Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Glenn Greenwald, Ewan MacAskill, Laura Poitras,<br \/>\nSpencer Ackerman and Dominic Rushe<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2013\/jul\/11\/microsoft-nsa-collaboration-user-data\" target=\"_blank\">Guardian.co.uk<\/a><br \/>\nJuly 11, 2013<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft has collaborated closely with US intelligence services to allow users\u2019 communications to be intercepted, including helping the National Security Agency to circumvent the company\u2019s own encryption, according to top-secret documents obtained by the Guardian.<\/p>\n<p>The files provided by Edward Snowden illustrate the scale of co-operation between Silicon Valley and the intelligence agencies over the last three years. They also shed new light on the workings of the top-secret Prism program, which was disclosed by the Guardian and the Washington Post last month.<\/p>\n<p>The documents show that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8211; Microsoft helped the NSA to circumvent its encryption to address concerns that the agency would be unable to intercept web chats on the new Outlook.com portal;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The agency already had pre-encryption stage access to email on Outlook.com, including Hotmail;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The company worked with the FBI this year to allow the NSA easier access via Prism to its cloud storage service SkyDrive, which now has more than 250 million users worldwide;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Microsoft also worked with the FBI\u2019s Data Intercept Unit to \u201cunderstand\u201d potential issues with a feature in Outlook.com that allows users to create email aliases;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Skype, which was bought by Microsoft in October 2011, worked with intelligence agencies last year to allow Prism to collect video of conversations as well as audio;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Material collected through Prism is routinely shared with the FBI and CIA, with one NSA document describing the program as a \u201cteam sport\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2013\/jul\/11\/microsoft-nsa-collaboration-user-data\" target=\"_blank\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has collaborated closely with US intelligence services to allow users\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 communications to be intercepted, including helping the National Security Agency to circumvent the company\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s own encryption, according to top-secret documents obtained by the Guardian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,1614],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-49532","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-surveillance-big-brother"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}