[Guardian] How Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages

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Microsoft has collaborated closely with US intelligence services to allow users’ communications to be intercepted, including helping the National Security Agency to circumvent the company’s own encryption, according to top-secret documents obtained by the Guardian. […]

The latest NSA revelations further expose the tensions between Silicon Valley and the Obama administration. All the major tech firms are lobbying the government to allow them to disclose more fully the extent and nature of their co-operation with the NSA to meet their customers’ privacy concerns. […]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/11/microsoft-nsa-collaboration-user-data