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In light of these allegations, we’ve decided to take immediate and coordinated action in three areas:
· We are expanding encryption across our services.
· We are reinforcing legal protections for our customers’ data.
· We are enhancing the transparency of our software code, making it easier for customers to reassure themselves that our products do not contain back doors.Microsoft Steps Up Data Encyption [blogs.technet.com]
Customer content moving between our customers and Microsoft will be encrypted by default.
Although this is a significant engineering effort given the large number of services we offer and the hundreds of millions of customers we serve, we’re committed to moving quickly. In fact, many of our services already benefit from strong encryption in all or part of the lifecycle. For example, Office 365 and Outlook.com customer content is already encrypted when traveling between customers and Microsoft, and most Office 365 workloads as well as Windows Azure storage are now encrypted in transit between our data centers. In other areas we’re accelerating plans to provide encryption.
For example, Office 365 and Outlook.com customer content is already encrypted when traveling between customers and Microsoft,as it contradicts common knowledge and various reports that 365, outlook.com etc. refuse to use STARTTLS (and hence email in SMTP is going to them unencrypted.
[...] Office 365 and Outlook.com customer content is already encrypted when traveling between customers and Microsoft, [...]. In other areas we’re accelerating plans to provide encryption.
