5 ms·
In other words: Saving a document in the Documents library means sharing it with the government.
by flexie 13y ago
In other words: Saving a document in the Documents library means sharing it with the government.
- arethuza 13y agoThey don't seem to have created a way of completely disabling SkyDrive using a GPO (Group Policy Object)! http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/0e840d9d-c8c0-4e0b-8620-7e9adc3b4d8d/it-is-possible-to-disable-skydrive-right http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/0e84... NB woe provided a correction to this - I (perhaps understandably) confused this feature with SkyDrive for Office, which appears to be something different... [NB woe's comment is dead, for no obvious reason]
- woe 13y agoYou're talking about the SkyDrive integration in Microsoft Office, a slightly different matter. Windows 8.1 has a "Prevent the use of SkyDrive for file storage" policy setting.
- nodata 13y agoYou can always delete the file, then it'll be moved to the Memory Hole.
- stinos 13y agoI have been with my head under a rock lately and don't know much about this NSA stuff. So please enlighten me: is there hard proof that all or some of your SkyDrive/GoogleDrive/... documents are passed directly to the NSA? Also if you're outside the US?
- RyanZAG 13y agoIt has been stated that all data - this includes SkyDrive or GoogleDrive files - is available for government agencies if a warrant is issued. In the case of being outside the US, it has been stated that the warrant is not necessary, and any communications or data between US and non US citizens is also fair game. There is also speculation that the NSA is legally allowed access to any data transfers going through peering points out of the US, and that internal US traffic can be diverted specifically to allow this to occur. SkyDrive in particular is very likely to be sharing this information as any link placed into a document in SkyDrive is visited by Microsoft, and any pornography or other 'invalid' content is deleted from SkyDrive. This implies Microsoft must keep records of all files you store there and the likely content of those files, and that 'metadata' appears to be freely available for law enforcement in the USA through the PRISM and similar programs. EDIT: In addition, it is believed that the NSA pays Microsoft for access to Skype communications, and one would assume that they would also pay for access to SkyDrive data.
- stinos 13y agohmm. still a lot of "speculation/likely/...". But no matter what, this is f*cked beyond recognition
- statictype 13y agoThere is also speculation that....is very likely...and that 'metadata' appears to be....it is believed....and one would assume... Thanks for the concrete feedback. I was wondering for a sec if this was just blatant fear-mongering and imagination stretching.
- lifeisstillgood 13y agoOh come on. Please, the documents Snowden revealed, if true, show all of the parents comments to accurate and with no need to be hedged by "appears".
- yread 13y agoIt's even worse than what RyanZAG mentions http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/crime/court-records-microsoft-alerted-authorities-to-largo-mans-child-pornography/2123494 http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/crime/court-record... They themselves alert authorities for stuff that might be breaking the law (and they are apparently required to by the law, so the other big guys do it too)
- newsign 13y agoIts better to use service from someone who follows Zero-Knowledge policy ... one such service is SpiderOak - may be there are few more ... on this platform we need to encourage to use those services so that other can notice the demand and change their policy too (though difficult but not impossible) ....