Microsoft, no different than any other American company, is not the issue. Every American company should be safe from a foreign country’s malicious intent.
Our military should be safe from such international crimes, but, right now they are not. The problem here is about the open relationship Trump has with Russia which is malicious against the safety and security of the American people. I fully expect this is a profound attempt by Russia to secure Trump’s election.
That said, the security of this country by Homeland Security failed. It completely failed Microsoft. Homeland security is supposed to issue breaches in cyber space. Homeland Security is supposed to report such breaches and attacks daily to the country. It didn’t do that.
Microsoft, as a security company, has been battling cyber attacks since there was a Microsoft. Microsoft knows its clients and prepared software to undermine vicious attacks on their consumers. Microsoft does not have the assets and capacity of any sovereign country.
The USA government and military is supposed to have all the cutting edge and high security methods to protect the country. Homeland Security cannot expect any company to do what it can do. Homeland Security is supposed to LEAD. That did not happen.
I don’t care the reasons Homeland Security was not leading so much as the fact that it wasn’t. The US is supposed to protect its secrets. It can’t do that if nothing but private companies with contracts are solely responsible for the country’s national cyber security which then compromises national security.
Understand this. The Russians are still looking for 30,000 Clinton emails that was wiped from the server of a Secretary of State.
So while they are looking for those emails why not go as far as they can to exploit information from anyone or any company in the USA. Why not write emails and plant them supposedly on secure sites?
Homeland Security failed. It failed to protect the country. Microsoft was a target in which it never got any help from the agency that is supposed to be state of the art in cyber security.
Microsoft will not be scapegoated for a failed and quite possibly disarmed government.
Why is Edward Snowden, a whistleblower, still in Russia?
