News - Microsoft opens dedicated cybercrime centre

[HEXUS]

Digital Crimes Unit will be housed in a new 16,800-square foot, high-security facility.

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[LeetyMcLeet]

Cool.

[valhar2000]

Who's naïve enough to buy this? This is just going to be another group dedicated to intimidating people who download MP3s off the Internet. If they make any sort of effort to stop organized crime or child abusers (and that's a big if) they will be quickly bribed by those groups to keep their activities safely ineffective.

Corporate American does not care about anything but its own bank account balance, and it never will.

[miniyazz]

The firm’s mixed approach’ which will use previously proven effective methods such as “massive data gathering and analysis, gumshoe detective work, high-level diplomacy and creative lawyering,” will hopefully be able to make a big impact.

Lol. Wonder what "creative lawyering" is.. tbh the whole thing sounds suspect!

Wonder whose fingerprint they put on the wall, also!

[cha_m_rlie]

I think that something is better than nothing. Anything that will stop some cyber crime must be useful and good for our society.

[Montysaurus]

Who made this bunch of greedy psychotic wacko's a law enforcement agency? First people they should investigate are themselves, as the biggest scam artists and fraudsters on the planet!
Remember the phrase: "If you have done nothing wrong you have nothing to hide" put that in the context of selling out to the NSA and GCHQ with their crap security/backdoor access, didn't exactly make that public knowledge did they?
I'm just waiting for the day someone discovers some Freeware code hidden in early Microsoft software locked down under a proprietary licence and like a woollen jumper with a loose thread you pull it and the whole damned thing falls apart?