Adam Engst sez:
"Be careful what you put in email, my mother always said, because it could end up on the front page of the New York Times. Clearly, Microsoft wasn't listening to my mother ..."
The funny thing is, they've been through exactly the same thing before, less than ten years ago, in the monopoly court case fiasco. It seems they don't learn so fast. Encryption, dudes, if you have to write about sensitive things.
Encryption wouldn't have done them any good in this case. They had to provide the emails as part of a lawsuit.
ReplyDeleteEncryption would protect against messages being intercepted in transit, or possibly against being read by someone who steals your computer.
Yes, I did wonder about that, whether they can legally be forced to decrypt. I guess they can.
ReplyDeleteSo keeping to voice talks would be the way if you have to.