Microsoft helped the NSA GET around its encryption systems so the agency could more easily spy on users of its services, reports suggest.

Papers given to The Guardian newspaper allege there were close links between the security agency and the tech firm.

Microsoft said its collaboration with the NSA only took place because legal obligations required it to do so.

The revelations come as some technologists start work on services they say will be IMPERVIOUS to spying.
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The information published in The Guardian COMES from documents it said were given to the paper by whistle blower EDWARD Snowden and shed more light on how closely tech firms work with the US National Security Agency and its Prism programme.

The documents show that the NSA had access to most of Microsoft's flagship products including Hotmail, Outlook.com, SkyDrive and Skype. In the case of Outlook.com, Microsoft reportedly worked with the NSA to help it get around its own data-scrambling scheme that would have concealed messages from the agency.


Full story: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23285642


It seems that Microsoft are digging there own graves here, not only will the XBox One flop at this rate but people will begin turning there BACKS on Microsoft as a whole. Trail ends at The Guardian, though. As in, they mention "documents" but don't provide any links to these documents so that the claims and paraphrasing can be verified as accurate by anybody else. I might have missed a link to these documents, though.