* We already have confirmation that the US government has been tapping internet infrastructure, accessing back doors in BigTech backends, and compromising industry-wide encryption and RNG standards.
So there is no way to prove that SOMEONE at the NSA doesn't have the ability to access all of the information on the internet.
And, since the NSA is just more humans, that means there's no way to prove that someone else hasn't sold that ability or specific subsets of the data to malicious actors.
Post Snowden revelations, you have to do risk analysis. Is some US or Five Eyes Government Agency able to access all your personal information or business competitive secrets? Probably Yes. Can one of your competitors? Probably Not. Can a malicious neighbor or drug cartel that would then use it to extort you for money? Probably not.
So even in this hypothetical example where everything authenticated by Microsoft is tainted, it's not clear if it actually changes this equation significantly.
* We already have confirmation that the US government has been tapping internet infrastructure, accessing back doors in BigTech backends, and compromising industry-wide encryption and RNG standards.
So there is no way to prove that SOMEONE at the NSA doesn't have the ability to access all of the information on the internet.
And, since the NSA is just more humans, that means there's no way to prove that someone else hasn't sold that ability or specific subsets of the data to malicious actors.
Post Snowden revelations, you have to do risk analysis. Is some US or Five Eyes Government Agency able to access all your personal information or business competitive secrets? Probably Yes. Can one of your competitors? Probably Not. Can a malicious neighbor or drug cartel that would then use it to extort you for money? Probably not.
So even in this hypothetical example where everything authenticated by Microsoft is tainted, it's not clear if it actually changes this equation significantly.