Sleeper in Seattle

July 14, 2010 at 9:57 am PT

Microsoft has certainly had its share of security vulnerabilities, but this is in a class by itself. On Tuesday, the U.S. deported a 12th alleged member of the recently broken Russian spy ring, one Alexey Karetnikov, who, Microsoft acknowledged today, had been working for nine months as a software tester in Redmond. A senior law enforcement official said that the FBI had been watching Karetnikov all along, and that he had “obtained absolutely no information.” So the secret mobile strategy is still safe.

Tagged with Alexey Karetnikov, FBI, frontpage, Microsoft, newsbyte, Redmond, Russian, Spy

Must-Reads from other Web sites

Myspace and Urban Renewal

Megan Miller, Blogger, Owls All the Way

Having Problems With Your Netflix? You Can Blame Verizon.

Om Malik and Stacey Higginbotham, Founder, GigaOM, and Staff Writer, GigaOM

If the Pageview Is Dead, Now What?

Tony Haile, CEO, Chartbeat

Inside Pocket: How a Startup Beat Its Rivals to Build the “DVR for Everything”

Casey Newton, Senior Reporter, The Verge

From the Ashes of Webvan, Amazon Builds a Grocery Business

Alistair Barr, E-Commerce Reporter, Reuters

Scrubbed

Graeme Wood, Contributing Editor, The Atlantic

About Voices

Along with original content and posts from across the Dow Jones network, this section of AllThingsD includes Must-Reads From Other Web Sites — pieces we’ve read, discussions we’ve followed, stuff we like. Six posts from external sites are included here each weekday, but we only run the headlines. We link to the original sites for the rest. These posts are explicitly labeled, so it’s clear that the content comes from other Web sites, and for clarity’s sake, all outside posts run against a pink background.

We also solicit original full-length posts and accept some unsolicited submissions.

Voices is edited by Beth Callaghan.