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Wow, Microsoft is apparently harvesting links in Outlook emails and indexing them on Bing.
@aral
Repeat after me: unencrypted email is not a secure communication channel.
@Haydar Yes and you can be stabbed to death if you're not wearing body armour. And yet we have laws against stabbing people and we treat those who stab others as criminals and understand that the person getting stabbed is the victim here so we don't go around blaming them for not taking steps to ensure their flesh is harder to stab. About time we stopped victim blaming in tech too. The blame here lies with one entity alone: the trillion-dollar faceless corporation we call Microsoft.
@aral Of course Microsoft is the one to blame. I am not saying, that this is the victim's fault. I'm just saying, everyone should know the risks.
We can point fingers at all these data harvesting tech corporations, but they will not change. So we must educate the users and inform them about the risks.
@Haydar Let’s do both :) (Of course, they won’t change but they can be forced to comply with the law if we can influence the right laws. Not that I’m hugely confident we can but still…)
@aral
I think Microsoft should be either forced by law or at made to feel very embarrassed if they don't *provide* the proverbial body armor to protect their proverbial potential stabbing victims.
This sort of news needs to be something that corporations' PR people live in fear of and do everything to prevent. But putting it into law requirws more people to actually care, which seems to be a hard problem...
@Haydar
