{"id":39916,"date":"2013-12-06T18:31:16","date_gmt":"2013-12-07T01:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/06\/us-surveillance-as-an-advanced-persistent-threat.html"},"modified":"2013-12-09T10:05:22","modified_gmt":"2013-12-09T17:05:22","slug":"us-surveillance-as-an-advanced-persistent-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/06\/us-surveillance-as-an-advanced-persistent-threat.html","title":{"rendered":"US\u00a0surveillance as an "Advanced Persistent Threat""},"content":{"rendered":"
That's not some zany computer security libertarian wonk working out of his basement. That comes from a senior Microsoft guy on their official company website.<\/p>\n

Yup. APT status isn't just for China any more.<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +Brandon Downey<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

In case you missed this, Microsoft has this post about protecting its users.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Here's the key quote:<\/p>\n

If true, these efforts threaten to seriously undermine confidence in the security and privacy of online communications. Indeed, government snooping potentially now constitutes an \u201cadvanced persistent threat,\u201d alongside sophisticated malware and cyber attacks.<\/b><\/p>\n

That's right, Microsoft just called the US government the APT — a term generally thrown around to describe the actions of governments such as the PRC.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And it's true — if the US government is willing to tap the cables belonging to US companies to conduct broad surveillance of foreigners, there is really no difference.<\/p>\n

Kudos to Microsoft for calling it like it is.\u00a0\ufeff<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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Protecting customer data from government snooping – The Official Microsoft Blog – Site Home – TechNet Blogs<\/a>
\n News and perspectives covering the top stories, events and activities from Microsoft. The content for this blog includes the official information and stories from all of Microsoft’s primary businesses.\n <\/p>\n

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That's not some zany computer security libertarian wonk working out of his basement. That comes from a senior Microsoft guy on their official company website. Yup. APT status isn't just for China any more. Reshared post from +Brandon Downey In case you missed this, Microsoft has this post about protecting its users.\u00a0 Here's the key … Continue reading “US\u00a0surveillance as an "Advanced Persistent Threat"”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,132,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-privacy","category-virii"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11860,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/01\/17\/security_and_privacy.html","url_meta":{"origin":39916,"position":0},"title":"Security and Privacy","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 17-Jan-08 11:04am","format":false,"excerpt":"Les passes on this little gem: US intel chief wants carte blanche to peep all \u2018Net traffic - ArsTechnica.com While short on specifics, the New Yorker piece recognizes that any...","rel":"","context":"In "Homeland Security"","block_context":{"text":"Homeland Security","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law\/homeland-security"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":37666,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/07\/les-nails-the-national-security-brouhaha-on-the-head.html","url_meta":{"origin":39916,"position":1},"title":"Les nails the National Security brouhaha\u00a0on the head","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 7-Jun-13 3:36pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Was the mass vacuuming of phone records by the NSA legitimate? 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