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I don't know why Microsoft are bothering with this. The 'I have nothing to hide' crowd could not care less and those that are quite fascinated by everything NSA
by Theodores 13y ago
I don't know why Microsoft are bothering with this. The 'I have nothing to hide' crowd could not care less and those that are quite fascinated by everything NSA are not going to ever believe that Microsoft are anything but evil.
The funniest Microsoft story for me was the one regarding their former security chief. Nowadays he won't use Microsoft products or anything else where he can't see the source code. Until such time as Microsoft open source the stuff they churn out then all one can do is 'believe' them to be good and, after finding out how in bed they are with the military-industrial-complex, I just do not trust them.
- chaostheory 13y agoThis may be a marketing campaign to reassure their international customers, in particular governments and other large organizations.
- bilbo0s 13y agoBut those are exactly the customers who won't believe you anyway??? I'm not saying that these customers don't have justification for their paranoia... just saying that there is an extremely high probability that Brazil, or Indonesia, or Statoil are planning to phase out use of American software over time in any case. In fact, it's so plainly evident that surely American tech companies should already be factoring it into their strategic planning??? Why not try to create some new customers? Or do something that doesn't rely on foreign organizations to trust, or use your software? I don't know what that would look like... but that's why they get paid the big bucks.
- csmuk 13y agoI wouldn't trust them either. I've seen the source via Shared Source and the CSP stuff is missing from it. If it wasn't missing they wouldn't have something to hide.