Microsoft has worked closely with US intelligence services to allow users to be intercepted communications, including helping the 'national security Agency circumvent own enterprise encryption, according to top-secret documents obtained by the Guardian.
files provided by Edward Snowden illustrate the extent of cooperation between Silicon Valley and intelligence agencies in the past three years. They shed new light on how the top-secret Prism program, which was revealed by the Guardian and the Washington Post last month
The documents show that :.
• Microsoft helped the NSA to circumvent its encryption to address concerns that the agency would be unable to intercept web conversations about the new Outlook.com portal;
• the agency had access to pre-encryption step to email on Outlook.com, including Hotmail;
• The company worked with the FBI this year to allow the NSA easier access via Prism its storage service SkyDrive cloud, which now has over 250 million users worldwide;
• Microsoft also worked with Data Intercept Unit of the FBI to "understand" potential issues with a feature in Outlook.com that allows users to create email aliases;
• in July last year, nine months after Microsoft bought Skype, the NSAboasted a new capacity has tripled the amount of Skype video calls collected by Prism;
• Material collected by Prism is routinely shared with the FBI andCIA with an NSA document describing the program as a "team sport".
the latest revelations of the NSA further expose the tensions between Silicon Valley and the Obama administration. All the big tech companies are lobbying the government to allow them to communicate in more detail the scope and nature of their cooperation with the NSA to address their concerns customers'privacy. Privately, technology executives are struggling to distance themselves from claims of collaboration and teamwork shown by the documents of the NSA, and insist the process is driven by legal compulsion.
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