Microsoft handed the government encryption keys for customer data

The FBI went to Microsoft past twelvemonth with a warrant, asking them to manus implicit keys to unlock encrypted information stored connected 3 laptops arsenic portion of an probe into imaginable fraud involving the COVID unemployment assistance programme successful Guam - and Microsoft complied.

Typically, companies defy handing implicit encryption keys to authorities. Most famously, Apple refused to assistance the FBI entree to a telephone utilized by the San Bernardino shooters successful 2016. The FBI yet recovered a third-party to hack their mode into the phone, but yet withdrew its case. Most of the large tech companies, including Google and Facebook backed Apple successful its conflict w …

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