Microsoft turns to private detectives
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| Microsoft says that its crackdown on the trading of unlicensed
| software is "going well", thanks to the use of private detectives.
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http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39284481,00.htm
Nice company. Lobbyists, lawyers, and... spies.
Reminds me of:
Former Agent Says Google and CIA in Partnership
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| Is Google's quest to manage the world's information leading
| straight to the CIA?
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http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=4774
This was heard of before. Matt Cutts is a former government (CIA, IIRC)
employee. The DoJ was able to infiltrate datacentres as well, in search of
whatever data was needed, however hard it was to obtain. There are also
political pressure groups involved.
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