All Your Windows Are Belong To Us, Too! - Granite Grok

All Your Windows Are Belong To Us, Too!

Who's watching through YOUR Windows?
Who’s watching through your Windows?

Are we outside looking in, or are ‘THEY’ inside looking out? Through a glass, darkly, or through a PRISM, everywhere?

Let me first say that The (UK) Guardian is a well known leftist rag, and they are no doubt taking some delight in the “Snowden Chronicles”, but they are the only ones bringing us the stories.

What’s going on on the other side of the looking glass? When we thought we were looking into cyberspace through our PC monitors, it seems that the NSA were inside looking out!

obama-prismThe Blaze had the story yesterday of all the ways Microsoft had helped the spooks gain easier access to our data and communications, and it gives a whole new meaning to “government approved encryption standards”!!  
Let us count the ways (from The Guardian):

  • 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
  • The agency already had pre-encryption stage access to email on Outlook.com, including Hotmail
  • PRISM-operationThe 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
  • Microsoft also worked with the FBI’s Data Intercept Unit to “understand” potential issues with a feature in Outlook.com that allows users to create email aliases
  • 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
  • Material collected through Prism is routinely shared with the FBI and CIA, with one NSA document describing the program as a “team sport”

“Team Sport!”?? Are you feeling uncomfortable yet?? Are you outraged? Are you looking for non-approved encryption methods?

Read the rest of it at TheBlaze.com

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