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Why Microsoft is a national security threat (www.theregister.com)
submitted 7 months ago by kinther to c/technology
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[–] Fedizen 69 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Its kind of funny to me that by pushing data harvesting of OS's and office data then selling it to 3rd parties Microsoft has probably become the biggest security threat to the US government, maybe ever. And its all because the US refuses to pass basic consumer privacy protections.