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techsupporter on Sept 16, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Dear USA, my data has left your building

I'm curious to know why you advocated just selling Microsoft stock when Google and Amazon and IBM also have cloud computing/services businesses. Will they not be affected?

nl on Sept 16, 2013 | [–]

I suspect the author was implying that the NSA backdoors in Windows will affect use of Windows by business.

Personally I doubt it - those backdoors have been known for years[1], and nothing happened.

[1] This report is dated 1999: http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/5/5263/1.html

ryanSrich on Sept 16, 2013 | [–]

Microsoft's not included in the silivon valley good ol' boys club.

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