Microsoft: U.S. government is ‘persistent threat’ to customer security

Microsoft: U.S. government is ‘persistent threat’ to customer security:
Microsoft is done playing nice with the National Security Agency. ITProPortal reports that Microsoft has now labeled the United States government an "advanced persistent threat" to its customers' security, a designation that the company normally uses only "for foreign state-sponsored cyber terrorists." Microsoft's decision to label its own government a persistent threat comes as the company is working to beef up end-to-end encryption for all of its data center Internet traffic following revelations that the NSA has found a way to hack into major tech companies' data centers. Both Google and Yahoo similarly moved to encrypt their data center traffic after learning of the NSA's escapades.