Closed Microsoft inevitably leads to unclosable back doors: FSF
The Free Software Foundation has lashed out at announcements out of Microsoft yesterday that Redmond was committing itself to increased encryption of user data and legal transparency.
Last night, the software giant confirmed that by the end of 2014, it would have added 2048-bit encryption to the links between its data centres, and encrypted all user data that Microsoft stored.
John Sullivan, executive director of the Free Software Foundation, called the Microsoft announcements meaningless and added that the company had made promises on security before. "Proprietary software like Windows is fundamentally insecure not because of Microsoft's privacy policies but because its code is hidden from the very users whose interests it is supposed to secure," he said in a statement.
