Service Desk
Thu 26/02/2015 12:29 PM
To: All-Students;

Dear Students,

As part of our subscription to the Microsoft Office 365 platform, Southern Cross University is pleased to announce that all current students now have free access to Microsoft Office on your personal devices.

… in order to give access to your personal devices to the NSA and ASIO.

In the campus IT induction spiel I went through in 2013, I was delighted by the witless IT drone who warned us to conduct all uni communication via our official student email, rather than something shonky and insecure like Hotmail. He was apparently oblivious to the fact that - as the university email system was Outlook.com, which is Microsoft's rebranding of Hotmail (which they purchased in 1997), and just a month or so earlier a Snowden leak informed us that Microsoft had given the NSA a back door to Outlook.com even before it was officially launched - our official SCU email service is as shonky and insecure as they come.