Inside Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit 72
jfruh writes "You may find it mildly creepy that Microsoft has a private police force, but the Digital Crimes Unit has helped real law enforcement do things like disrupt huge botnets. According to Richard Boscovich, assistant general counsel for the Digital Crimes Unit, Microsoft is only able to do all this by relying on the company's existing infrastructure, including its Azure cloud service. The DCU can provision compute time from the cloud as necessary to combat complex threats, he said, and also uses cloud services to share information with law enforcement agencies quickly."
Digital Crimes Unit (Score:5, Funny)
Misinterpeted headline (Score:5, Funny)
And here I thought from the headline that TFA would be about a group at Microsoft in charge of *committing* digital crimes!
(That would have been funnier 15 years ago. At this point, I would say if Microsoft needed a full-time team to commit crimes, it would be only so they could catch up to the competition.)
Law & Order: DCU (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Digital Crimes Unit (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Digital Crimes Unit (Score:5, Funny)
I was thinking that the Office development team was renamed for few seconds...
That would be the Special Victims Unit.