Majmun
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Microsoft has collaborated closely with US intelligence services to allow users' communications to be intercepted, including helping the National Security Agency to circumvent the company's own encryption, according to top-secret documents obtained by the Guardian.
• Secret files show scale of Silicon Valley co-operation on Prism
• Outlook.com encryption unlocked even before official launch
• Skype worked to enable Prism collection of video calls
• Company says it is legally compelled to comply
Story here...
Kinect conspiracies maybe true, after all? MS giving NSA access to their database has the potential to make people more skeptical towards the Kinect. MS gave the NSA access to their Skype database...
I won't be getting an X1 if Kinect remains a mandatory thing... :/