Microsoft Helped NSA Access Encrypted Messages: Report
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/11/microsoft-nsa_n_3581068.html#comments
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The internet was created by the US MILITARY (ARPANET) to coordinate military weapons developments between military buyers, civilian corporate contractors and civilian university contractors, all dispersed across the entire USA. It had no 4th Amendment rights from the inception and all aspects of communications were knowingly monitored by overt military personnel.
This situation endured for decades while the open-source UNIX developments brought in more universities and college students and alternate networks.
In 1972 there were 23 mainframe computers linked into the proto-internet ARPANET, including one commercial service LEXIS which charged $1 per minute, $60 per hour, to search their database online to all comers. By 1975 there were 108 computer systems linked and it was skyrocketing soon into the thousands.
This is a QUOTE from a 1982 internet etiquette handbook of MIT.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET#Rules_and_etiquette
A 1982 handbook on computing at MIT's AI Lab stated regarding network etiquette:[20]
It is considered illegal to use the ARPANet for anything which is not in direct support of Government business ... personal messages to other ARPANet subscribers (for example, to arrange a get-together or check and say a friendly hello) are generally not considered harmful ... Sending electronic mail over the ARPANet for commercial profit or political purposes is both anti-social and illegal. By sending such messages, you can offend many people, and it is possible to get MIT in serious trouble with the Government agencies which manage the ARPANet.[20]
