This is a wonderful example of NSA meddling. With one hand, Microsoft gives everyone out-of-box encryption, which it can use to demonstrate how well it's protecting consumers. With the other hand, by virtue of a 'feature' to assist consumers, it's providing access to the NSA via SkyDrive copies of encryption keys. Everyone's happy!
Best of all, enterprise customers don't have a reason to complain, because the SkyDrive backup 'feature' shouldn't apply to their deployment scenarios. The only people with a complain are those that use the default option.
We should keep vigilant for these security 'features' that are undermined by implementation. The NSA has years of practice at this, and we're playing catchup.
Best of all, enterprise customers don't have a reason to complain, because the SkyDrive backup 'feature' shouldn't apply to their deployment scenarios. The only people with a complain are those that use the default option.
We should keep vigilant for these security 'features' that are undermined by implementation. The NSA has years of practice at this, and we're playing catchup.