[164475] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Office 365..? how Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Baldwin)
Fri Jul 12 16:28:58 2013
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Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 13:26:20 -0700
From: Matt Baldwin <baldwinmathew@gmail.com>
To: Nick Khamis <symack@gmail.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
I should also note that even if the stores are on an encrypted LUN you are
still exposed to impersonation and journaling.
-matt
On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Matt Baldwin <baldwinmathew@gmail.com>wrote:
> While that would secure the connections from snooping if you're mailboxes
> are on Office 365 and those mailbox stores do not exits on an encrypted LUN
> then a service can easily read the Exchange database; anyone with server
> access can read mail across all mailboxes. In fact, Microsoft supports this
> type of setup with impersonation, e.g. a global user that can query any
> mailbox it has permissions to within Exchange. This is how some EWS
> integrated applications work. It wouldn't be that far fetched for the NSA
> to incorporate the same type of query to monitor the mailboxes -- even
> subscribing to change notifications so it only queries and collects when a
> new mail item has arrived. Additionally, Office 365 can simply create a
> journal rule and have all inbound / outbound mail journal to a location
> that makes it easier for snoops to look through the messages, e.g. an
> external SMTP endpoint, all without the end customers' knowledge.
>
> If anyone has any questions on Exchange they, too, can contact me off
> list.
>
> Just my 2-cents.
>
> -matt
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 1:04 PM, Nick Khamis <symack@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> We are currently working on something right now where all connections
>> are doing over an encrypted vpn. We are bringing SIP, email, search,
>> and cloud to the tunnel.
>>
>> You can contact me off list if you would like to know more.
>>
>> Nick Khamis
>>
>>
>
