The first big company to say it's serving the legal marijuana trade? Microsoft ... Microsoft is breaking the corporate taboo on pot this week by announcing a partnership to begin offering software that tracks marijuana plants from “seed to sale,” as the pot industry puts it.

Brothers and Sisters, please for the love of all that's good and green, do NOT TRUST MICROSOFT with proof that you are doing something that is STILL A FEDERAL CRIME!

Neither one of the two candidates who will be president are going to legalize it, and either one of them ratcheting up "The War on Drugs" is a distinct possibility.

For those unaware, Microsoft works with the NSA to help them spy on us. and the information they collect is shared with the other government agencies.

• Microsoft helped the NSA to circumvent its encryption to address concerns that the agency would be unable to intercept web chats on the new Outlook.com portal;

• The agency already had pre-encryption stage access to email on Outlook.com, including Hotmail;

• The company worked with the FBI this year to allow the NSA easier access via Prism to its cloud storage service SkyDrive, which now has more than 250 million users worldwide;

• Microsoft also worked with the FBI's Data Intercept Unit to "understand" potential issues with a feature in Outlook.com that allows users to create email aliases;

• In July last year, nine months after Microsoft bought Skype, the NSA boasted that a new capability had tripled the amount of Skype video calls being collected through Prism;

• Material collected through Prism is routinely shared with the FBI and CIA, with one NSA document describing the program as a "team sport".

I'm not saying be paranoid, just be smart.

This may go without saying but if you live in a state where it isn't legal, DEFINITELY don't use this.

You can track your plants yourself, offline. Or get a secure Linux distro and a spreadsheet if it's too hard to keep track of with pen and paper. (I can imagine how many people would actually need that anyway.)

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