Site Leaks Microsoft Online Surveillance Guide, MS Demands Takedown

[InsaneNutter]

Cryptome, a whistleblower site that regularly leaks sensitive documents from governments and corporations, is in hot water again: this time, for publishing Microsoft’s “Global Criminal Compliance Handbook,” a comprehensive, 22-page guide running down the surveillance services Microsoft will perform for law enforcement agencies on its various online platforms, which includes detailed instructions for IP address extraction.

Such things detailed in the guide include everything everything a person has ever loaded up on the Xbox 360 when connected to Xbox Live, with the date, time and duration that happened for.

For anyone intrested and wants to read more the PDF can be found here.

Update: Microsoft has backed down from issuing a DMCA request to hosts of a leaked Microsoft “Global Criminal Compliance Handbook.” more can be read about that here.

 

[Icharus_Falling]

the direct link to the PDF appears to be down, but you can get it on cryptome.org.

 

[Slaz]

Doesn't the site states Microsoft had widrawn their request for a takedown? It's kinda logical, looking at the document, there's nothing truly 'secretive' about it. Keeping track of individual activity is something to expect from a large and succesfull service like LIVE, and it's also for statistics. And I believe the inactivity timespans for Hotmail/ID's and their preservation guidelines could be found publicly on the TOS and Privacy document over at Hotmail..

 

[xzKinGzxBuRnzx]

Doesn't the site states Microsoft had widrawn their request for a takedown? It's kinda logical, looking at the document, there's nothing truly 'secretive' about it. Keeping track of individual activity is something to expect from a large and succesfull service like LIVE, and it's also for statistics. And I believe the inactivity timespans for Hotmail/ID's and their preservation guidelines could be found publicly on the TOS and Privacy document over at Hotmail..

They did indeed back down. I updated the post.

 

[paardje]

Hmmmmmmm........ I think they took the PDF offline, sir!

 

[Hoffman]

As Microsoft are no longer going to send a swat team after anyone with this PDF its up in the Digiex Download Center, enjoy.

 

[Icharus_Falling]

if you browse around on the host site, cryptome, you can find similar documents from other digital service providers such as paypal and comcast. all of them say about the same thing, but its interesting if you subscribe to the service youre reading the security guidelines for.