And what is the NSA doing that's so bad? You never actually followed up on this.
They also never said anything about disclosing it either.
And trust me, the government can decrypt your device or get the key via the said NSA backdoor. Has it ever actually been proven that they can't? Again, Apple still had an intentional NSA backdoor and you still wont attack them because...
...Your encryption key didn't get sent to apple???
Even if you're not against data collection, they've already broken US law on several occasions, such as the head of the NSA lying in congress. Their data collection PRISM Program was also highly illegal, again whether or not you're against it. They don't care about the law and they don't care about peoples constitutional rights. Even so, that's irrelevant to my main point.
They have talked about disclosure, and it's right in the statement I mentioned that's in their privacy policy. "Finally, we will access,
disclose and preserve personal data" is how it starts. I'm not in the business of conspiracy theories here, only stated legal fact. If someone was really so hyper-paranoid that they believed that all windows and mac machines were backdoored by the nsa (which according to the conspiracy theories they all are starting from windows 95) then they won't be using it in the first place, so the point is kinda pointless.
I'm also unsure you know how encryption works. The rumor that the NSA can just magically crack 256-bit or even 128-bit encryption is hysterically false. The biggest encryption crack ever done was only around 60 bits, and the biggest supercomputers in the world could only do 80 bits tops, even given tens of years of computing time. If you don't have the encryption key, you're never going to get the data.
Just to give you an idea of how big 128 bits is, even with the best known attack on AES, it would take on average 2
126.1 decryption operations. At 43,750,000 (700MB/s) decryptions per second per core, the power of the top 3 supercomputers in the world combined would take 15,772,869,380,176,035.3 (that's 15 quadrillion) years to complete.
We can't disprove that Microsoft isn't sneakily stealing all your data, however just as much as others can't prove that they actually are doing anything with your data. It's a philosophical debate at best, one that doesn't need evidence to continue apparently.
The point is that they've specifically stated that they have the power to, and there's plenty of incentive for them to. It would be silly to assume they're not going to use the power they've given themselves and are incentivized to use considering they're a company that ultimately strives towards profits.
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