The company's ability -- and willingness -- to take
such an approach became apparent this week.
The company says its decision is justified.
From the company's point of view, desperate times call
for desperate measures.
"In this case, we took extraordinary actions
based on the specific circumstances," said John Frank, one of the
company's top lawyers, in a blog post Thursday night.
According to an FBI complaint, Microsoft in 2012
discovered that an ex-employee had leaked proprietary software to an anonymous
blogger.
Fearing that could empower hackers, Microsoft's lawyers approved
emergency "content pulls" of the blogger's accounts to track it down.
Company investigators entered the blogger's Hotmail account, then pored over
emails and instant messages on Windows Live.
The internal investigation led to
the arrest on Wednesday of Alex Kibkalo, a former Microsoft employee based in
Lebanon.
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