Microsoft exec: Targeting of Americans’ records ‘routine’

Post by AnimalMuppet » Thu, Jul 01, 2021, 3:46 AM UTC

wiredone wrote: post #20

AnimalMuppet wrote: post #11

Let me see... Microsoft wants me to have a Microsoft account to use a computer that I bought. They nag me every time I log in because I gave them a bogus email address. And then you read something like this. All those abstract privacy concerns just got a bit more concrete...

And yet when they limit their new version of Windows specifically to devices that cant have rootkits installed, everyone freaks out. ...maybe they know that people are installing root kits... because they see first hand what the "good" guys are doing routinely.

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jul 01, 2021, 4:02 AM UTC

encryptluks2 wrote: post #6

judge2020 wrote: post #2

The headline is so non-descript that it makes it sound like the Microsoft executive is shrugging this off, but the testimony says otherwise: > Tom Burt, Microsoft’s corporate vice president for customer security and trust, told members of the House Judiciary Committee that federal law enforcement in recent years has been presenting the company with between 2,400 to 3,500 secrecy orders a year, or about seven to 10 a…

If these are from out of state what is to prevent them from just saying no? I'd imagine there is some interstate process that they have to follow in order to make it valid where Microsoft is headquartered.

Post by Black101 » Thu, Jul 01, 2021, 4:08 AM UTC

im_down_w_otp wrote: post #24

whatshisface wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What it's time for is a change to the laws so that informing the public about what their public servants have been up to can be accomplished without fleeing the country afterwards.

What's the enforcement mechanism for these laws? Who compels who to do what?

Post by xfer » Thu, Jul 01, 2021, 4:25 AM UTC

wiredone wrote: post #20

AnimalMuppet wrote: post #11

Let me see... Microsoft wants me to have a Microsoft account to use a computer that I bought. They nag me every time I log in because I gave them a bogus email address. And then you read something like this. All those abstract privacy concerns just got a bit more concrete...

And yet when they limit their new version of Windows specifically to devices that cant have rootkits installed, everyone freaks out. ...maybe they know that people are installing root kits... because they see first hand what the "good" guys are doing routinely.

Post by shapefrog » Thu, Jul 01, 2021, 4:44 AM UTC

xyst wrote: post #32

Is there a law that prevents companies from completely encrypting their data at rest? Data should only be decrypted if the person(s) have the private keys. Government entities can request the information all they want but all they will get is an encrypted dump. You will need to ask the person that owns the private keys to decrypt or just pound sand (there are laws preventing self incrimination, so private keys should…