Revealed: How Microsoft Handed The NSA Access To Encrypted Messages - GuardianUK

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11. The Guardian should have asked NSA the question.

Then published that they did not respond. That's what all other responsible journalists do. The 'no comment' or 'did not respond before this article went to print' is standard fare and the reader can make up his or her own mind.

But you're right, there is little enough transparency in this entire process. That doesn't mean I'll let myself be led by the nose into a perspective that doesn't address all the facts.

Didn't Microsoft recently release -or request permission to release- the numbers of warrants they have been served?

They should be allowed to tell us if they haven't already. And we need more transparency.

And the FISA court is not a rubber-stamping court. As was testified to recently, many warrants are rejected, sent back for revisions and then resubmitted. That's why the bulk of them get approved.

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