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I Did Yet Another Rebuttal to FUD Against Linux and SSH. But Microsoft FUD on a Microsoft-Sponsored Web Site Kept Crashing OBS Studio, So I Had to Record Thrice.

Video download link | md5sum cd16f7f6f56aae9eea598782762fa71e Bad Passwords Not Linux or SSH - 1 Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0



Video download link | md5sum 90a7115b57d715b767278ab86da8da1d Bad Passwords Not Linux or SSH - 2 Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0



Video download link | md5sum b3debfb771e2975875ff1de84bc373e3 Bad Passwords Not Linux or SSH - 3 Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0



Summary: Microsoft-connected media is belittling severe issues with Microsoft and with Windows (like computers being remotely hijacked irrespective of passwords) while falsely portraying Linux and SSH as lacking in security because of passwords such as "login" or "abcdefghi"; to make matters worse, Microsoft-funded 'media' crashed my recording software (OBS Studio) twice in a row, resulting in lost work (no audio recorded)

THE above would have to be my worst recording experience since starting this workflow in 2020. It deals with these links, but I had to record 3 times because a Microsoft-sponsored SPAM site kept crashing my sound system. I was simply trying to respond to lies it was spreading for Microsoft and Windows, as usual, mostly by omission and misdirection. Let this ordeal be a permanent reminder of how ill the "modern" Web became; it should not be like this for an 'article' (propaganda) only a few paragraphs long.



Anyway, the main reason I did this video was (I decided to share all the recordings; the first one has about 10 minutes of silence!) to rebut some new anti-Linux and anti-SSH FUD. I decided it was worth doing video-type publication so the password patterns can be explained. An issue with passwords is not the fault of SSH or of Linux.

This rebuttal may not seem so unique (we did similar before, even years back), but this FUD pattern is back and it seems connected to Microsoft-affiliated sites. They all read from the same script, using language that suggests they either don't understand what they cover or, yet worse, they're deliberately lying.

To reproduce the rebuttals from Daily Links verbatim: "Neither Linux nor SSH at fault here. This is a Microsoft propaganda site attributing weak passwords to software which does nothing wrong. "The following table contains the list ID and password values used by the bot in the dictionary attacks along with the IP address for the target." So it's about bad passwords that is all. Linux sucks. It's not safe when it's connected to the Web with openssh daemon running and passwords "p@ssw0rd", abcdefghi, 123@abc etc. So this is the latest Microsoft FUD argument? That "Linux" and "SSH" are bad and dangerous because of some bad passwords? Unethical journalism [sic] by Microsofters is pandering to suits with false stigma; it's trying to create an illusion wherein VNC/RDP with bug doors would be safe, whereas SSH must be banned inside companies. Heck, just bad all UNIX and GNU/Linux systems, impose Windows on everybody."

As an associate put it some hours ago, "Microsoft-owned press is trying to present RDP as safe and SSH as insecure, in their upside-down worldview."

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