Microsoft Enabled China to Crack US Government Systems. Now It Bribes the Media for "Sponsored" Narratives and Distraction (With "Linux").
Here's just one new example: (other Microsoft-funded 'media' is trying to portray Microsoft as a security leader this week)
Recent: Richard Stallman Explained How Proprietary Software Hides Rather Than Prevents Back Doors | Richard Stallman Was Right and What Happened in XZ Wasn't a "Linux" or Free Software Problem, It Was Social Engineering (This Happens in Proprietary Software Too and, in This Case, It Was Enabled by Microsoft's Proprietary Social Control Media Disguised as 'Codeforge')
This is what they don't want people to notice, as Microsoft is trying to distract from it [1, 2]. Keep the eyes on the ball!
Apropos, many of the horrible pieces portray Microsoft as the hero and say "Microsoft loves Linux" for smearing it (lots more examples here). One publisher, The New York Times, went with "Did One Guy Just Stop a Huge Cyberattack?"
No, this Microsoft employee helped distract from a successful cyberattack enabled by Microsoft. This also "misrepresents Microsoft as an authority on secure software development," to quote an associate, and MinceR responded with: "well, they're pretty good at preventing it and demonstrating how not to do it."
"The focus on 'zero trust' is a (good) return to 1980s priorities before Microsoft destroyed the computing field," the associate added. "Build layers rather than monoliths."
Of course Microsoft has even hijacked the term, 'zero trust'.
The CyberShow has just published this article entitled "Principles not products: Why we need more top-down security engineering." In mentions in passing last week's death of Ross Anderson. █