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<title>New Snowden leak: Storing your data at Microsoft is negligent</title> |
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<h1>New Snowden leak: Storing your data at Microsoft is negligent</h1> |
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<p>In an <a |
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href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/11/microsoft-nsa-collaboration-user-data/">article |
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published today, The Guardian</a> describes how Microsoft is actively |
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cooperating with the NSA. According to the article, Microsoft is providing |
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the NSA with broad access to the communications of anyone using the |
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company's services:</p> |
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<li>Microsoft gives the NSA access to encrypted mails on Hotmail, Live.com and Outlook.com, as well as web chat messages.</li> |
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<li>Microsoft provides the NSA with easy access to its SkyDrive storage service, which currently has 250 million users worldwide.</li> |
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<li>Microsoft makes it possible for the NSA to monitor audio and video calls on the Skype service which it acquired in 2011.</li> |
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<blockquote><p>"This makes it clear that trusting Microsoft with your |
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critical company data is downright negligent," says Karsten Gerloff, |
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President of the Free Software Foundation Europe. "In both the public and |
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the private sector, those responsible for security and data protection |
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urgently need to take action to protect their organisations, customers |
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and clients."</p></blockquote> |
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<p>While it is difficult or impossible to entirely escape surveillance, |
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there are ways to minimise the risk that sensitive data, such as |
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confidential product data or patient records, is intercepted by a third |
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party. Free Software solutions for groupware, office products and operating |
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systems are fully auditable, and often data security a priority. End-to-end |
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encryption with Free Software products such as <a |
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href="http://gnupg.org">GnuPG</a> and <a |
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href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-the-Record_Messaging"> |
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off-the-record messaging (OTR)</a> protects data in transit. Products |
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providing secure audio, video and chat communications, such as <a |
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href="https://jitsi.org/">Jitsi</a>, go a long way towards replacing |
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Skype.</p> |
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<blockquote><p>"We advise companies and all other organisations that wish |
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to protect their data to use Free Software solutions, to store data |
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in-house wherever possible, and to cooperate only with providers whom |
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they trust to protect their customers' data," says Gerloff. "Such |
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providers will often use strong encryption, and minimise the amount of |
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data they store. Using smaller providers instead of global IT companies |
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makes it somewhat less likely that customers' data will be caught in the |
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NSA's dragnet."</p></blockquote> |
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<p>Users should actively take control of their data and communications. One |
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way to do so is to support the developers of Free Software encryption |
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technologies, so they can continue to provide these important products. |
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"Now is a good time to <a |
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href="http://g10code.com/gnupg-donation.html">donate to the Free Software |
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PGP implementation GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG)</a>!", says Matthias |
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Kirschner, FSFE's Head of Public Awareness.</p> |
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