Microsoft sniffed blogger's Hotmail account to trace leak
Off topic: The name <i>Office of Legal Compliance</i> immediately made me think of <i>1984</i>'s Ministry naming. Similarly to how the Ministry of Truth's job is to spread propaganda and falsify history in the novel, this Office of Legal Compliance department's job is to ask themselves, "How far can we push the envelope toward being illegal, but still remain within legal boundaries?"<p>Essentially their job is dealing with things that border on being illegal. Determining how far you can get to illegality, while remaining technically inside legality.<p>For the first time the notion of "newspeak" in real life has clicked for me. I'd never grokked the idea from the novel, other than as some fear mongering fantasy that Orwell invented for the sake of compelling irony. But now I see, names actually make sense, from a certain angle. They weren't purely ironic devices.<p>For the record, I'm NOT comparing Microsoft to Big Brother. Just funny to draw that parallel in naming choices.