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Looks like the llama may not get off so easily after all. AOL yesterday announced that it was shutting down Winamp, media playing software for Windows and Android devices that it picked up through its $80 million acquisition of Nullsoft in 1999. But today Techcrunch has learned that AOL is talks with Microsoft to sell Winamp, along with Shoutcast, a media streaming service also developed by Nullsoft. We have also learned that AOL has been planning to announce the closure of Shoutcast next week.
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.