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Microsoft storing Israeli intelligence trove used to attack Palestinians

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I don't think Microsoft realizes we will never forgive or forget this.
Before I was inspired to join the Linux movement out of curiosity, open principles and fun.
Now I am a whole another level of committed against Microsoft, they have done much worse than lose me as a customer, they have turned themselves into my enemy and I never shut up or forget.
- We may never forget, but 90% of the population doesn't know or care so it won't hurt them and they know it.
- What did they do to turn you into their enemy here though?
  MS provides Azure services to many federal governments including Israel. The data storage is encrypted and MS doesn’t have access to the contents. Normally, this storage is used for things like all the data required to run a country.
  In this case, Microsoft suspected that it might include the intelligence used in the genocide, so they confronted the Israeli government about that, and didn’t get a satisfactory answer, so made it public.
  That’s better than what the other manufacturers of goods and services Israel has been using to kill Palestinians have done.
  
  What did they do to turn you into their enemy here though?
  Aiding and abetting genocide.
  Israel is a rogue state committing a genocide, not simply "another" federal government.
  If Microsoft suspects their servers are being used as part of a genocide by a government than they should immediately stop doing business with that government until further legal action and international UN action.
  If Microsoft continues to do business with Israel they are complicit in the Genocide of Palestinians.
  Period, end of story.
  This is an overly generous take though, the important people at Microsoft knew and they need to be held accountable.
  Yet the internal documents detailing Microsoft’s partnership with Unit 8200 paint a different picture of the company’s concern for Palestinians’ privacy. In fact, Palestinians were not mentioned in the documents summarizing the 2021 meeting between Sariel and Nadella, which also involved Israeli intelligence officers and senior Microsoft executives.
  According to the Guardian’s reporting, Unit 8200 informed Microsoft of its intention to transfer up to “70 percent” of its data, including secret and top secret data, to Azure. And while the project’s ultimate goal (beyond “deepen[ing] the partnership”) does not appear to have been explicitly stated, an intelligence source said that executives of Microsoft’s Israeli subsidiary — who worked closely with Unit 8200 personnel on the project — were given clearer indications.
  “Technically, they’re not supposed to be told exactly what it is, but you don’t have to be a genius to figure it out,” the source noted. “You tell [Microsoft] we don’t have any more space on the servers, that it’s audio files. It’s pretty clear what it is.”

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