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Re: Microsoft will start warning users if it detects government hacking attempts

From Mike Swift <mike.swift@yeton.co.uk>
Newsgroups alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.computer.security, alt.hacker, alt.privacy.anon-server, comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject Re: Microsoft will start warning users if it detects government hacking attempts
Date 2015-12-31 11:47 +0000
Organization nest of swifts
Message-ID <aGZUggA6WRhWFw5Q@ntlworld.com> (permalink)
References <e1dde28a4dfbe112d1c6cbc04055c206@anemone.mooo.com> <n633e9$om8$1@dont-email.me>

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In article <n633e9$om8$1@dont-email.me>, edevils 
<use_replyto_address@devils.com> writes
>> SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Microsoft experts concluded several
>> years ago that Chinese authorities had hacked into more than a
>> thousand Hotmail email accounts, targeting international leaders
>> of China’s Tibetan and Uighur minorities in particular – but it
>> decided not to tell the victims, allowing the hackers to
>> continue their campaign, according to former employees of the
>> company.
>>
>> On Wednesday, after a series of requests for comment from
>> Reuters, Microsoft said it will change its policy and in the
>> future tell its email customers when it suspects there has been
>> a government hacking attempt.
>...snip...
>
>Any government? ;)
>
>
>> http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-warns-users-if-
>> government-hacks-accounts-2015-12

Oh the irony.

Mike

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Michael Swift      We do not regard Englishmen as foreigners.
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Microsoft will start warning users if it detects government hacking attempts Jeremy Bentham <nobody@anemone.mooo.com> - 2015-12-31 11:34 +0100
  Re: Microsoft will start warning users if it detects government hacking attempts edevils <use_replyto_address@devils.com> - 2015-12-31 12:29 +0100
    Re: Microsoft will start warning users if it detects government hacking attempts Mike Swift <mike.swift@yeton.co.uk> - 2015-12-31 11:47 +0000
      Re: Microsoft will start warning users if it detects government hacking attempts Jack Ryan <noreply@remailer.cpunk.us> - 2016-01-01 05:40 -0500
        Re: Microsoft will start warning users if it detects government hacking attempts gheston@hiwaay.net (Gary Heston) - 2016-01-01 09:27 -0600
          Re: Microsoft will start warning users if it detects government hacking attempts "Ezekiel" <zeke@nosuchemail.com> - 2016-01-01 10:56 -0500
            Re: Microsoft will start warning users if it detects government hacking attempts Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-01-01 11:25 -0500
              Re: Microsoft will start warning users if it detects government hacking attempts "Ezekiel" <zeke@nosuchemail.com> - 2016-01-01 12:03 -0500
                Re: Microsoft will start warning users if it detects government hacking attempts Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-01-01 12:33 -0500
                Re: Microsoft will start warning users if it detects government hacking attempts edevils <use_replyto_address@devils.com> - 2016-01-01 20:00 +0100
                Re: Microsoft will start warning users if it detects government hacking attempts Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-01-01 14:46 -0500
                Re: Microsoft will start warning users if it detects government hacking attempts Roger Blake <rogblake@iname.invalid> - 2016-01-02 01:09 +0000
                Re: Microsoft will start warning users if it detects government hacking attempts Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-01-01 22:10 -0500
                Re: Microsoft will start warning users if it detects government hacking attempts Roger Blake <rogblake@iname.invalid> - 2016-01-02 03:39 +0000
                Re: Microsoft will start warning users if it detects government hacking attempts Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-01-01 22:45 -0500
                Re: Microsoft will start warning users if it detects government hacking attempts Roger Blake <rogblake@iname.invalid> - 2016-01-02 04:44 +0000
                Re: Microsoft will start warning users if it detects government hacking attempts Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-01-02 11:01 -0500
                Re: Microsoft will start warning users if it detects government hacking attempts linuxiac <linuxiac@usa.com> - 2016-01-02 16:38 +0000
                Re: Microsoft will start warning users if it detects government hacking attempts Slimer <.m@nsn.s> - 2016-01-02 12:04 -0500
                Re: Microsoft will start warning users if it detects government hacking attempts Roger Blake <rogblake@iname.invalid> - 2016-01-03 01:33 +0000
                Re: Microsoft will start warning users if it detects government hacking attempts edevils <use_replyto_address@devils.com> - 2016-01-03 11:57 +0100
                Re: Microsoft will start warning users if it detects government hacking attempts Roger Blake <rogblake@iname.invalid> - 2016-01-03 21:40 +0000
                Re: Microsoft will start warning users if it detects government hacking attempts Ed Mullen <ejEMOVER@edmullen.net> - 2016-01-03 23:22 -0500
                Re: Microsoft will start warning users if it detects government hacking attempts Roger Blake <rogblake@iname.invalid> - 2016-01-04 04:54 +0000
                Re: Microsoft will start warning users if it detects government hacking attempts Fritz Wuehler <fritz@spamexpire-201601.rodent.frell.theremailer.net> - 2016-01-05 09:05 +0100
                Re: Microsoft will start warning users if it detects government hacking attempts Anonymous <nobody@remailer.paranoici.org> - 2016-01-04 19:06 +0000
                Re: Microsoft will start warning users if it detects government hacking attempts JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet> - 2016-01-04 15:18 -0600
                Re: Microsoft will start warning users if it detects government hacking attempts Anonymous <anonymous@hoi-polloi.org> - 2016-01-04 21:57 +0100
                Re: Microsoft will start warning users if it detects government hacking attempts "PAS" <ntotrr@optonline.net> - 2016-01-04 09:46 -0500
                Re: Microsoft will start warning users if it detects government hacking attempts Anonymous <anonymous@hoi-polloi.org> - 2016-01-02 09:41 +0100
                Re: Microsoft will start warning users if it detects government hacking attempts gheston@hiwaay.net (Gary Heston) - 2016-01-02 09:44 -0600
                Re: Microsoft will start warning users if it detects government hacking attempts "Rolf" <rolflxxx@somecompany.com> - 2016-01-02 23:34 +0100
              Re: Microsoft will start warning users if it detects government hacking attempts Anonymous <anonymous@foto.nl1.torservers.net> - 2016-01-02 04:14 -0500
            Re: Microsoft will start warning users if it detects government hacking attempts gheston@hiwaay.net (Gary Heston) - 2016-01-01 18:02 -0600
              Re: Microsoft will start warning users if it detects government hacking attempts "Ezekiel" <zeke@nosuchemail.com> - 2016-01-02 16:41 -0500
            Re: Microsoft will start warning users if it detects government hacking attempts "Anonymous Remailer (austria)" <mixmaster@remailer.privacy.at> - 2016-01-02 12:17 +0100
          Re: Microsoft will start warning users if it detects government hacking attempts Jack Ryan <noreply@remailer.cpunk.us> - 2016-01-02 02:52 -0500
            Re: Microsoft will start warning users if it detects government hacking attempts Shadow <Sh@dow.br> - 2016-01-02 07:41 -0200
              Re: Microsoft will start warning users if it detects government hacking attempts Jack Ryan <noreply@remailer.cpunk.us> - 2016-01-02 16:15 -0500
    Re: Microsoft will start warning users if it detects government hacking attempts Anonymous <nobody@remailer.paranoici.org> - 2016-01-01 12:30 +0000
  Re: Microsoft will start warning users if it detects government hacking attempts Nobody <not@home.anymore> - 2015-12-31 20:56 +0000
    Re: Microsoft will start warning users if it detects government hacking attempts Anonymous <nobody@remailer.paranoici.org> - 2016-01-01 13:00 +0000
  Re: Microsoft will start warning users if it detects government hacking attempts Jack Ryan <noreply@remailer.cpunk.us> - 2016-01-01 20:22 -0500
  Re: Microsoft will start warning users if it detects government hacking attempts Shadow <Sh@dow.br> - 2016-01-02 07:38 -0200
    Re: Microsoft will start warning users if it detects government hacking attempts Charlie <cdknospam@msn.com> - 2016-01-06 21:12 -0500

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