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I'm pretty sure this gives credence to the monopoly argument


This is a good example of why you don't want ring0 level access for clients. Or just, you don't want client-based solutions. The provider just becomes another threat vector.


This is actually quite insane if you consider that this is intended to be tame language.

"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: 1. the cascade of Microsoft’s avoidable errors that allowed this intrusion to succeed;

2. 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;

3. the Board’s assessment of security practices at other cloud service providers, which maintained security controls that Microsoft did not;

4. 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;

5. 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;

6. 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 nation-state actor to access highly-sensitive Microsoft corporate email accounts, source code repositories, and internal systems; and

7. 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."


Not everything should be on-prem, but some things should be. Access control comes to mind


Ugh, please do not give car manufacturers any ideas!

...or Boeing.


Ah, the Terraform alternative. I wonder how long they'll be able to maintain backwards compatability


How long do they need to?

If they say “opentofu 1 supports terraform version blah if ppl want the new features in opentofu 1.3 or whatever they will adopt or… go back/stay with terraform?


Would you replace OpenSSH?


Rugpulled again!

killedbygoogle.com might have a new entry now


Lack of sunscreen


That is amazing!


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