NSA has access to Skydrive/Skype/Email Data

[aura]

Yes people, this whole cloud thing was bad, whole secure thing etc etc was pure crap. Yet it was sugarcoated imo...

MS providing access to outlook/skype/skydrive data to NSA (National Security Agency)

The documents show that:
• 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;
• 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;
• 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;
• In July last year, nine months after Microsoft bought Skype, the NSAboasted that a new capability had tripled the amount of Skype video calls being collected through Prism;
• Material collected through Prism is routinely shared with the FBI andCIA, with one NSA document describing the program as a "team sport".

from here
How Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages | World news | The Guardian

One has to be careful about what one puts up in the "cloud"
worse thing for me imo is the data regarding calls on skype.

 

[yousaf465]

To quote @Jshak

Microsoft and its famous " bhunds "

http://www.pakgamers.com/forums/f3/skype-gives-16-year-olds-149645/index2.html#post1912740

 

[MegamanEXE]

Really sick dude. Thankfully, I don't have anything personal online. Just old pictures of my little brother and various save files of games.

 

[Ottoman]

I'm curious what the NSA does with our info? Black mail us? lol

 

[mhaqs]

You guys seriously haven't heard of PRISM? All small and big names are part of it.

 

[saad07]

That's why I have a ton of USBS. I have backed up very little data on my dropbox. And most of them are just random uploads that I wanted to share.

Though, the part about skype and email is a bit disturbing.

 

[manigamer]

lets make some wordfiles and in it abuse the heck outta NSA and upload to skydrive

 

[prohyper]

We are RED

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[manigamer]

Oh yeah we are BURNIN HOT !

its damn hot nowadays anyways

 

[Seasmy]

well i talk about the US and the terrorism things all the time on skype , im posting this here so im not in some underground safe-room-jail-thingy

 

[murtaza12]

Google Drive FTW

 

[yousaf465]

Google Drive FTW

OCR your scanned your documents.

 

[Lord Ammar]

Who even uploads important files on cloud services? I mean whoever does that deserves this to have happened to him!