Comment by p_ing
8 hours ago
> it may as well be.
That defies the definition of "forced". Forced means no option. You can disagree all you want -- but at a technical level, you're incorrect.
8 hours ago
> it may as well be.
That defies the definition of "forced". Forced means no option. You can disagree all you want -- but at a technical level, you're incorrect.
Im going to shoot you unless you say the magic word - and technically Im not even forcing you into it, you could have said the magic word and got out of it!! Whats the magic word? not telling!
Try doing this as a normies without technical guidance. Technically correct, this time, is not the benchmark.
Anyway Microsoft and any software developer can be compelled to practically do anything, you don't want to be blocked in some jurisdictions (even less the US) and the managers do not want to go to jail to protect a terrorist, especially if nobody is going to know that they helped.
Some even go that far that they push an update that exfiltrates data from a device (and some even do on their own initiative).
And even if you are not legally compelled. Money or influence can go a long way. For example, the fact that HTTPS communications were decipherable by the NSA for almost 20 years, or, whoops, no contract with DoD ("not safe enough"...)
Once the data is in the hands of the intelligence services, from a procedure perspective they can choose what to do next (e.g. to officialize this data collection through physical collection of the device, or do nothing and try to find a more juicy target).
It's not in the interest of anyone to prevent such collection agreement with governments. It's just Prism v2.
So seems normal that Microsoft gives the keys, the same that Cloudflare may give information about you and the others. They don't want to have their lives ruined for you.