I am cheering so fucking hard for cyber warfare at this point holy shit. Someone please blow up the internet already it has produced nothing of value
Imagine if we would’ve spent all the resources for computer processors into funding irl tools like high speed rail and efficient transportation systems. Like holy shit we really fucked up, I spent a few days unplugged and everything that people value about the internet can be boiled down to just another circus
When microshit puts ads in searching my pc so you click an internet link that’s worded exactly the same as the file you’re looking for I CLAPPED
Everything about computational tech is turning me into .
Admittedly, technology is one of the few things does well in, but all that talent is wasted on Silicon Valley: techbros have made me hate the words ‘synergy’, ‘innovation’, ‘disruption’, and ‘wheelhouse’. Those four words should not receive 1st amendment protection.
technology is one of the few things does well in
Because they were first and bullied and dominated their way to the top via stolen talent of immigrants from the Global South and the need for advanced machines in the Cold War. There was that brief period where all the technology was new and was being developed in universities by students and researchers. Then corpos came in with NDAs and EULAs and that’s where we are now.
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Put a crapton of ads, spyware, bloat, borderline malware embedded in the OS
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Push people to Linux
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More people who didn’t know about FOSS learn about it and appreciate it
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Make more people realize that capitalists are not needed for production and innovation
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Empower class consciousness in the working class
Critical support to Microsoft for taking a stinking hot dump on their own product
Critical support to Microsoft for taking a stinking hot dump on their own product
Honestly Microsoft could shoot someone in 5th avenue and people will still use Windows, there are too many videos and posts of people groveling at their feet for their mega corporation to stop harming them (nice little capitalist realism moment) and I won’t believe it until I see Linux reach over 10% market share.
I’m sure that at some point staying on Windows 10 will no longer be an option for me. That will be the point at which I switch over to Linux.
Yeah. It’ll no shit take me 3-5 months to switch my home systems over and I’m gonna lose so fucking much functionality and probably a lot of data too. But I’ll need to.
Honestly if it wasn’t for how shitty sound codecs setup for Linux is and someone found a way to make windows-style file structures work even as a fake frontend I’d have switched already.
I know this is the doomer community but every doomer topic should have a path out.
I am cheering so fucking hard for cyber warfare at this point holy shit.
Professor Farnsworth voice: Good News @stigsbandit34z@hexbear.net! Microsoft was recently hacked by Xi and they made off with US Government documents. The United States is, to put it mildly, pissed off. (PDF)
In May and June 2023, a threat actor compromised the Microsoft Exchange Online mailboxes of 22 organizations and over 500 individuals around the world. The actor—known as Storm-0558 and assessed to be affiliated with the People’s Republic of China in pursuit of espionage objectives—accessed the accounts using authentication tokens that were signed by a key Microsoft had created in 2016. This intrusion compromised senior United States government representatives working on national security matters, including the email accounts of Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, United States Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China R. Nicholas Burns, and Congressman Don Bacon.
Signing keys, used for secure authentication into remote systems, are the cryptographic equivalent of crown jewels for any cloud service provider. As occurred in the course of this incident, an adversary in possession of a valid signing key can grant itself permission to access any information or systems within that key’s domain. A single key’s reach can be enormous, and in this case the stolen key had extraordinary power. In fact, when combined with another flaw in Microsoft’s authentication system, the key permitted Storm-0558 to gain full access to essentially any Exchange Online account anywhere in the world. As of the date of this report, Microsoft does not know how or when Storm-0558 obtained the signing key.
The Board finds that this intrusion was preventable and should never have occurred. The Board also concludes that Microsoft’s security culture was inadequate and requires an overhaul, particularly in light of the company’s centrality in the technology ecosystem and the level of trust customers place in the company to protect their data and operations. The Board reaches this conclusion based on:
- the cascade of Microsoft’s avoidable errors that allowed this intrusion to succeed;
- Microsoft’s failure to detect the compromise of its cryptographic crown jewels on its own, relying instead on a customer to reach out to identify anomalies the customer had observed;
- the Board’s assessment of security practices at other cloud service providers, which maintained security controls that Microsoft did not;
- Microsoft’s failure to detect a compromise of an employee’s laptop from a recently acquired company prior to allowing it to connect to Microsoft’s corporate network in 2021;
- Microsoft’s decision not to correct, in a timely manner, its inaccurate public statements about this incident, including a corporate statement that Microsoft believed it had determined the likely root cause of the intrusion when in fact, it still has not; even though Microsoft acknowledged to the Board in November 2023 that its September 6, 2023 blog post about the root cause was inaccurate, it did not update that post until March 12, 2024, as the Board was concluding its review and only after the Board’s repeated questioning about Microsoft’s plans to issue a correction;
- the Board’s observation of a separate incident, disclosed by Microsoft in January 2024, the investigation of which was not in the purview of the Board’s review, which revealed a compromise that allowed a different Review of the Summer 2023 Microsoft Exchange Online Intrusion iv nation-state actor to access highly-sensitive Microsoft corporate email accounts, source code repositories, and internal systems; and
- how Microsoft’s ubiquitous and critical products, which underpin essential services that support national security, the foundations of our economy, and public health and safety, require the company to demonstrate the highest standards of security, accountability, and transparency
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