Inside Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday December 19, 2013 @01:03AM 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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Digital Crimes Unit by korbulon · 2013-12-19 01:10 · Score: 5, Funny

AKA the Windows 8 development team.
Creating a Solution for a Problem they Created by stonebit · 2013-12-19 01:26 · Score: 5, Insightful

Does this sound corrupt or what? They created the problem and now they have a solution, but at a cost. Sounds like double dipping into the customer's wallet.