Microsoft Global Criminal Compliance Handbook~

Here is a little something by the *not so* great folks over at micro$oft.
More dishonest crap as usual.
If you know anything about the history of microsoft and some of their past business strategies, you know what I mean by "crap as usual"

The "Microsoft Global Criminal Compliance Handbook"

It is (was*) a confidential 22 page booklet designed for police and intelligence services.
"Microsoft Confidential For Law Enforcement Use Only"

Cryptome.org [an Anti-Secrecy] site [ cryptome.org... ] was forcibly taken down for publishing it,
back towards the beginning of this year.

Summary ~ Cryptome.org is a venerable New York based anti-secrecy site that has been publishing since 1999.

On Feb 24, 2010, the site was forcibly taken down following its publication of Microsoft's "Global Criminal Compliance Handbook", a confidential 22 page booklet designed for police and intelligence services.

The guide provides a "menu" of information Microsoft collects on the users of its online services. Microsoft lawyers threatened Cryptome and its "printer", internet hosting provider giant Network Solutions under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). The DMCA was designed to protect the legitimate rights of publishers, not to conceal scandalous internal documents that were never intended for sale.

Although the action is a clear abuse of the DMCA, Network Solutions, a company with extensive connections to U.S. intelligence contractors, gagged the site in its entirety. Such actions are a serious problem in the United States, where although in theory the First Amendment protects the freedom of the press, in practice, censorship has been privatized via abuse of the judicial system and corporate patronage networks.

http://__._/wiki/Cryptome.org_takedown:_Microsoft_Global_Criminal_Compliance_Handbook,_24_Feb_2010

the document in PDF is @ the link.

(sorry if this has been posted, my searches didnt find me anything)

p.s.. Embrace Linux/Ubuntu lol

[edit on 23-5-2010 by Ahmose]

Wow, that is something.

Thanks for the thread, I will definitely download that "Leak".

reply to post by gagol


yeah, it's somethin' alright. lol

to be honest, it is a rather boring read..
but still... just shows more of their 'colors'
.

thanks for the reply.