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Inside Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit

Posted by samzenpus on from the throwing-crime-out-the-window dept.

jfruh writes "You may find it mildly creepy that Microsoft has a private police force, but the Digital Crimes Unit has helped real law enforcement do things like disrupt huge botnets. According to Richard Boscovich, assistant general counsel for the Digital Crimes Unit, Microsoft is only able to do all this by relying on the company's existing infrastructure, including its Azure cloud service. The DCU can provision compute time from the cloud as necessary to combat complex threats, he said, and also uses cloud services to share information with law enforcement agencies quickly."

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  1. More like the NSA's crime unit by hawkinspeter · · Score: -1, Troll

    So, it has come to this.

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  2. Re:Digital Crimes Unit by SirGarlon · · Score: -1, Troll

    I wonder if Windows 8 was designed by parolees from Microsoft Bob.

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  3. Windows ... by lwriemen · · Score: -1, Troll

    ... was the biggest digital crime of my era.