microsoft especially over the past couple of days, they ve come out and released updated statements, essentially encouraging the government to allow them to be more transparent about what the extent of the involvement is here. there is sort of a sense that their hands are tied because under the foreign intelligence surveillance act, fisa, you re not allowed to disclose any time that you receive a request. and so it s kind of this catch 22, this cycle here, where they can t say everything that s going on. they re prohibited from doing so. i read somewhere the other day talking about these companies as being essentially like hostile witnesses for the prosecution, that they are compelled by law to do this. they talk in their statements about complying with the law. but then they talk about this no direct access to servers. and then the guardian put up this slide in which we have the nsa saying in their own slide collection directly from the servers of these u.s. sf providers. microso