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Microsoft is moving to encrypt its Internet traffic based on assumptions the National Security Agency has broken into its internal global communications systems as it did with Google and Yahoo, according to sources familiar with the plans.
Microsoft’s suspicions that the NSA is intercepting traffic
within its private networks were heightened in October, when it
was reported such intrusions have happened to Google and Yahoo,
which have similar global infrastructures. Sources close to
Microsoft’s deliberations told The Washington Post top executives
at the company are to meet this week to decide what encryption
initiatives will take place.
The Post reports two previously unreleased slides obtained via
former NSA contractor Edward Snowden suggest the company is
rightly concerned.