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[ NNSquad ] How Microsoft Appointed Itself Sheriff of the Internet
How Microsoft Appointed Itself Sheriff of the Internet
(Wired): http://www.wired.com/2014/10/microsoft-pinkerton/
"Microsoft's court maneuvering had played out in secret. Durrer's
company didn't have the chance to argue its case in court. By the time
Durrer was served with court papers on that June day, Microsoft had
seized control of the company's services and ejected the hackers using
them, while also locking out all the legitimate users. Durrer
eventually regained control of his company, but only after it had been
offline for days. Because many of his customers are on annual
contracts, he still isn't sure how much the outage will cost him.
Boscovich and Microsoft have executed the same basic maneuver a dozen
times over the past six years. The end-game is always the same:
Microsoft wants to stop criminal activity and clean up infected
systems. The company has derailed some pretty sleazy operations, but
that's not the case with No-IP, a healthy business with a wide range
of customers."
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Unacceptable Microsoft. Nobody appointed you anything other than
King Blue Screen.
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
Founder:
- Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org
- PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info
Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info
Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
I am a consultant to Google -- I speak only for myself, not for them.
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