> "A knowledgeable government source claims that the NSA has concluded agreements with Microsoft, Lotus and Netscape to permit the introduction of the means to

> "A knowledgeable government source claims that the NSA has concluded agreements with Microsoft, Lotus and Netscape to permit the introduction of the means to prevent the anonymity of Internet electronic mail, the use of cryptographic key-escrow, as well as software industry acceptance of the NSA-developed Digital Signature Standard (DSS)." Nice. Microsoft has been collaborating with the NSA to make their spying easier for its own products and services for at least two decades now, something the Snowden docs confirmed in 2013 [1], but we didn't know it went back that far then. But that was the old Microsoft (up until 1-2 years ago). The new Microsoft could never possibly. [1] - http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/11/microsoft-nsa-collaboration-user-data http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/11/microsoft-nsa-c...