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Speaking of Microsoft and encryption, here's a fun little clip from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)

> According to The Guardian, NSA had access to chats and emails on Hotmail.com and Skype because Microsoft had "developed a surveillance capability to deal" with the interception of chats, and "for Prism collection against Microsoft email services will be unaffected because Prism collects this data prior to encryption."

Fool me once, shame on me...




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