market in san francisco, founder and editor in chief at the information, also a cnbc contributor, jessica lessinod friday to you. or good thursday to you, rather. >> it's not quite new year's yet, but soon. it's a short week, so it's easy to get a little bit confused. first, jessica, microsoft says it will now inform customers if government agencies are trying to hack into their accounts. it comes after a reuters report that the company chose not to tell thousands of hot mail users that their accounts were hacked by the chinese government. reports say microsoft found evidence of these attacks back in 2011, but, rather than informing users, it simply asked them to change their password. it was reuters that reported this originally and reached out to the company for comment. is there precedent for something like this? how do tech companies normally approach this? >> one of the first times this happened with a company identifying a state-sponsored actor was google back in china several years ago which actually precipitated them pulling out of this market. 6. >>> obviously i think signals and politi