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Matthew Green@matthew_d_green

But more broadly, this highlights a fundamental weakness. If MS can easily produce this data to law enforcement, then anyone who compromises their cloud infrastructure (or customer service infrastructure; or can forge a plausible LE request) can potentially access that data.

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