Microsoft would have provided NSA keys Outlook encryption

Based on documents provided by Edward Snowden, The Guardian disclosed details of the cooperation between Microsoft and the NSA. The secret services have achieved the Microsoft Outlook.Com encryption keys. The online storage service Skydrive is also monitored.

Based on documents provided by former NSA consultant Edward Snowden, The Guardian reveals that the NSA would be able to read encrypted e-mails online services Outlook.com and Microsoft's Hotmail. The FBI and Microsoft have worked for five months to find a solution allowing the NSA to bypass the encryption on the chat Outlook. Com. This would be in use since 12 December 2012.

The Guardian also notes that, according to a memo dated April 8, 2013 Microsoft has also worked "for several months" with the FBI to allow NSA access to its online storage service Skydrive. Skype would have also been integrated into the Prism program from February 2011, a few months before it was acquired by Microsoft in May 2011. NSA boasted he could triple the amount of intercepted calls.

In a statement, Microsoft responds to the article in The Guardian: "We have clear principles that guide the response of our company to government requests for customer information for both legal issues and national security." Microsoft explains further that it provides data of clients in legal proceedings. All applications are rigorously tested and if they are not valid, they are rejected.