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<blockquote data-quote="bazang" data-source="post: 1101509" data-attributes="member: 114717">Well then you&#039;re just gonna hate the fact that Microsoft works very closely with every single U.S. federal government branch and agency. They even have Microsoft personnel on-premises at key U.S. Government facilities. Not only Microsoft, but all the major internet service providers (ISPs) do the same.There is not a single U.S.-based major technology provider that does not cooperate extensively with federal, state and treaty agreement governments. And why is that? The contracts are extremely lucrative, and under certain provisions of U.S. national security they have no choice.I might as well head this off while I am at it... somebody is going to mention &quot;Apple does not cooperate. It will not assist the FBI to decrypt iPhones.&quot; That is citing only one single high-profile case that Apple&#039;s lawyers guided the &quot;non-cooperation.&quot; What the general public does not ever see is the 99.999% of other cases where Apple cooperates fully with federal, state, local and internal (e.g. Interpol) law enforcement authorities.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="bazang, post: 1101509, member: 114717"] Well then you're just gonna hate the fact that Microsoft works very closely with every single U.S. federal government branch and agency. They even have Microsoft personnel on-premises at key U.S. Government facilities. Not only Microsoft, but all the major internet service providers (ISPs) do the same. There is not a single U.S.-based major technology provider that does not cooperate extensively with federal, state and treaty agreement governments. And why is that? The contracts are extremely lucrative, and under certain provisions of U.S. national security they have no choice. I might as well head this off while I am at it... somebody is going to mention "Apple does not cooperate. It will not assist the FBI to decrypt iPhones." That is citing only one single high-profile case that Apple's lawyers guided the "non-cooperation." What the general public does not ever see is the 99.999% of other cases where Apple cooperates fully with federal, state, local and internal (e.g. Interpol) law enforcement authorities. [/QUOTE]

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