Microsoft-Run FUD Machine Wants Nobody to Pay Attention to Microsoft Getting Cracked All the Time
Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt (FUD) is the business model of "modern" media
HAVING just mentioned how utterly awful - not just shallow - online media has become, consider how much of it ignored Microsoft breaches attributed to Russia and instead produced Microsoft spam which misrepresents Microsoft as an authority on the matter of security (in relation to Russia). This grotesque lying campaign is portraying the culprit as the hero. We've already covered what they're trying to distract from and in the process the Linux Foundation lets Microsoft employees (on Microsoft's payroll) put words in Schneier's mouth. Yes, he is helping Microsoft staff badmouth FOSS ("Other Attempts to Take Over Open Source Projects"), leaving him with less capacity to mention what chaos Microsoft is causing. He links to a Microsoft-run organisation, euphemised as "Cross Project Council". I already did a video about this ("Microsoft Got Its Systems Cracked (Breached) Again, This Time by Russia, and It Uses Its Moles in the Press and So-called 'Linux' Foundation to Change the Subject"). Remember that all this "Xz" stuff started because of a Microsoft employee only days before Microsoft got blasted by the US Government for security failures (Microsoft knew this report was coming). Even now, days later if not a week later, we still see this marked as "news" instead of what happened with Microsoft and Russia (the real news; not the "election interference" spin). "Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: OpenSSF and OpenJS incidents similar to XZ backdoor," it says.
So for 3 weeks already they keep bringing that up while Microsoft gets cracked by China, Russia, etc.
Way to change the topic. Notice that it's Microsoft employees changing the topic.
And speaking of topics being changed, take a glimpse or get load of this nonsense. As our associate put it, "the article tries to put a "Linux too" spin on the windows weaknesses VMware is not Linux, they are not even in compliance with the license." (GPL)
We saw the exact same spin in other sites that perhaps cannot grasp the simple fact Windows and VMware are not "Linux". They are trying to associate non-Linux issues with "Linux" while mostly ignoring what just happened to Microsoft. Brittany Day played along as if all this bias and FUD is just organic. This one article says:
>Akira ransomware has hit over 250 organizations worldwide and received over $42 million in ransom payments.
Yes, Windows and VMware (proprietary).
It's not even the only example. An hour ago we saw this article with "Linux" in the headline. The issue here is servers with Confluence, not Linux.
Anyway, the media has become a sad joke and a lot of attention is paid to (or misdirected to) "Linux" as a security risk while Microsoft has its entire infrastructure cracked not only by one nation but several nations... █