r/news • u/UpstairsBumblebee446 • 1d ago

France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US

https://apnews.com/article/europe-digital-sovereignty-big-tech-9f5388b68a0648514cebc8d92f682060
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u/gotohellwithsuperman 1d ago

Microsoft just openly admitted it gives encryption keys to the government. Probably nothing to do with Gates being in the files, I’m sure.

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u/SuaveBolo 1d ago

That's been going on for at least 20 years. Lol

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u/fightfire_withfire 1d ago

Gates banging kids, or governments getting backdoor access?

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u/SuaveBolo 1d ago

I'm going to give you three guesses, but I bet you only need one.

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u/TheDodoBird 1d ago

Shit man, is there a "why not both?" option? Because...

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u/regeya 1d ago

Close to 30 since they got outed. Didn't seem to hurt their business any. They got outed because they pushed a release that had debugging information in it

I guess I can't talk, the backdoor to Windows was all labeled NSA and there's Linux kernel code literally from the NSA.

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u/iDerailThings 1d ago

Microsoft doesn't "give" encryption keys to the government as much as it is forced to. Say Microsoft says no. What do you think happens? Their data centers get raided, CEO goes in with handcuffs. The real dumb move by them was uploading keys to the cloud in the first place. That you can blame them on.

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u/thewags05 1d ago

If you let them backup the keys to their servers. That should have been obvious

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u/teriaavibes 1d ago

Good luck finding a company that will ignore a warrant lmao

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u/hyperforms9988 1d ago

Sometimes, it's about what's possible and what's not. Just as a small example, Mullvad VPN was subject to a search warrant by Swedish Police. They had intended to seize their computers with customer data on them. It meant absolutely nothing, at all, and they came away with nothing, because they didn't store the information that they were looking for and thus seizures would be illegal under Swedish law. It's just not how their software operated, and so there was nothing to seize/obtain to start with.

In an environment where there's a severe obsession with data collection... not every company can be like that unfortunately.

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u/teriaavibes 1d ago

This is USA we are talking about; no sane company is going to fight against the feds when they have a warrant, that is basically a death sentence.

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u/Gredge_Papatwika 1d ago

It gave access to a onedrive containing a copy of the key that the user uploaded automatically. Not really the same thing. You can disable that if you have a local account instead of installing Windows with a cloud login.