Cablegate: Microsoft spied for USA

http://www.cablegatesearch.net/cable.php?id=06CARACAS1778&q=microsoft%20venezuela

by pitiburi • 15 years ago

9 6 15 years ago

thirsteh• 15 years ago

"According to Microsoft, no government in the world has successfully used Linux for large operations (Brazil and Cuba reportedly attempted this, but then abandoned the effort)."

doublextremevil• 15 years ago

The cable says " Microsoft's General Manager, Gonzalo Fernandez (protect), showed EconOff an internal PDVSA memo which claimed that all U.S. software companies had a "back door" mechanism whereby the U.S. government could at any time access information, citing the supposed CALEA Law (United States Law of Assistance in Communications for Security Systems)." This seems fishy to me

pitiburi2• 15 years ago

Many different things on that are fishy... The claims that the Microsoft GM did are at the very best, completely inexact.... But the thing is, Microsoft got access to internal documents of one of the biggest foreign companies in the world, and went to the USA embassy with that information. Scary -and illegal-.

tzs• 15 years ago

What is illegal about it? That's wasn't made clear in the memo.

Cablegate: Microsoft spied for USA

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