Microsoft-DOJ: A crime-fighting team?
Reuters | at | by Mike
Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer, whose company has been at odds with the U.S. government over antitrust violations, said on Thursday it was working closely with the Justice Department to fight cybercrime.
"As we think about private and public partnerships, we have to say that this (partnership) is key," said Ballmer, as he outlined the dangers of cybercrime to the European Policy Center, a private think-tank. "We've worked very closely, for example, with the Department of Justice in the United States to get additional funding for FBI efforts to target cybercrime," he said. "They simply didn't have enough people who were technically expert," he added. "We've loaned our experts but we also think it's very important that government have its own experts as part of the policy process in these issues."