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While their answer is true, it would have been more honest to start "Yes. However..." instead of trying to camouflage it.
by dcminter 4y ago
While their answer is true, it would have been more honest to start "Yes. However..." instead of trying to camouflage it.
- smoldesu 4y agoIt's also honest to start with "We hold a very high standard for privacy". Maybe they don't care about it very much, but Microsoft is held to the same data privacy standards as every other company in their vein. They comply with the same ISO standards and go through the same audits - they are "secure" in the baseline modern definition. Mostly though, I don't understand why Hacker News of all places is angry about this. How can you be surprised when people have access to the data you give them?
- dcminter 4y agoI'm not remotely surprised, and their response is par for the course in all megacorps that have forgotten how to give a straight answer to an uncomfortable question, but it's still not honest. Just true.
- gus_massa 4y agoIt will be misquoted to get clickbait articles as > Yes and skip all the however part. Moreover they don't have a single "yes" in that whole paragraph that can be isolated an used against them. Somewhat related: In some states, the governor can veto a single word of a sentence of a bill, even changing the meaning of it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line-item_veto_in_the_United_States#Wisconsin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line-item_veto_in_the_United_S...