"These procedures allegedly included helping the NSA to bypass encryption on the Outlook.com email client; providing the FBI and the NSA with easier access to SkyDrive, Microsoft’s cloud storage service, and helping the NSA to boost their capability threefold to intercept video calls made via Skype."
Summary: The European laws are being ignored and the European Patent Office (EPO) has become shameless about outsourcing legal processes to the United States, where the spying is intensive and detrimental to fair and accessible legal proceedings
So far we've been spared (our network has not been targeted at all) [...] Let's hope the spam won't discourage the hundreds of thousands of people worldwide who still use IRC
