How Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages
To play devil's advocate here, what else would people have Microsoft do? Is there a scenario in which they can successfully resist enabling surveillance features in their products while operating in the US?<p>CALEA applies to telecommunications providers, which is a label that would seem to clearly apply to Skype. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calea" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calea</a><p>Are major companies based or operating in the US allowed to provide secure email and/or data storage <i>without</i> options for lawful surveillance from law enforcement?<p>If people do not like these policies and the cooperation from the companies operating them, I think the proper place to direct your anger is at the laws that require them to cooperate.