Microsoft to warn email users of suspected hacking by governments

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6 points·mattlutze··5 comments

It must be a difficult point for governments and customer-security-minded companies to come to settle on.

I can understand the perspective of a government's intelligence agency feeling like a company is breaching some form of national secrets information by divulging that a request came in.

But the stronger concern for me is that there is some implicit expectation that, if you're a tech company, you by default must agree with and be a part of your incorporated nation's national military and intelligence complex. I don't understand how that squares.

> implicit expectation that, if you're a tech company, you by default must agree with and be a part of your incorporated nation's national military and intelligence complex

this shouldn't be the norm. Replace software with property, and it makes no sense. Gov't does not have the right to just appropriate a citizen's private property, unless it's war time. A gov't does not have the right to install surveylance in your private property, nor search your property, unless they have a warrant. Why does this not extend to the cyberworld?

But haven't we always been at war with eastasia?

The UK is about to pass a bill in Parliament that will make this kind of notification illegal if the user is being monitored by the police, GCHQ, MI5 or MI6.

The trend toward total passive intelligence aggregation is troubling enough... making overt moves to force companies to, by existing in your country, be a part of your intelligence infrastructure feels downright wrong.

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