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Microsoft is Still Attacking GNU/Linux and the Net

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 18, 2025

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Last year: Microsoft Saturated E-mail with Junk (Windows Botnets Spew Out Lots of These) and Now It Does the Same to the World Wide Web

The Web has become infested or plagued or littered with slopfarms*. A lot of articles about... well, just about anything... aren't really articles but LLM slop. It's not always obvious, but people learn to discern or to "feel" when they read slop. Then they can run some scanners to affirm this feeling.

The examples at the bottom are almost entirely FUD, they all touch "Linux", and they're LLM slop. We can imagine that a Microsoft LLM was leveraged to spew those out this week. That's what typically happens.

Those who got conned into thinking Microsoft is no longer an enemy of Linux (Torvalds may be among them) ought to read this new article (the old headline said, "Google and AWS: Linux too hard, so customers move to Azure", now it says "Google, AWS say it's too hard for customers to use Linux to swerve Azure"). To quote: "When moving to the cloud, companies with significant investments in Microsoft infrastructure wares simply can't afford to rewrite everything for Linux, so they end up migrating to Azure to dodge the markups Redmond charges for running its server software in competitors' clouds. [...] The issue stems from changes to Microsoft's cloud licensing practices some years back. Customers used to be able to use regular software licenses to host Microsoft server software on outsourced hardware. But in 2019, Microsoft began requiring new, separate licenses to host virtualized versions of these servers within Amazon, Google, and Alibaba's clouds – three businesses Microsoft classified as "listed providers." As a result, customers must pay up to four times more to run Windows Server VMs on Google Cloud Platform or AWS, making GCP “less competitive than on Azure,” Google told the CMA. [...] The pricing issue means customers that went all in with Windows Server on-prem are “denied effective competitive choice or innovative alternatives” when going into the cloud, according to Google's submission to the CMA."

Last year when a complaint to this effect was brought up Microsoft bribed the government using money that did not even exist.

Never underestimate how evil Microsoft is. It's hiring stabbers and stranglers. It's a sociopathic cult. If the Web is critical of Microsoft, then Microsoft will attack the Web with chaff.

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* New example #1:

Critical Tails OS Security Update Fixes Kernel

LLM slop.

Tails, the secure operating system designed to protect your privacy and anonymity

New example #2:

UNC5174 Reemerges with SNOWLIGHT Malware

LLM slop.

Recently, the infamous China-linked threat actor UNC5174

New example #3:

Navigating Open Source Security with TuxCare Insights and Strategies

LLM slop.

We Linux security admins are always searching for the latest insights to help us secure our systems against current and emerging threats

New example #4:

BPFDoor: Understanding Malware Threats and Mitigation Tactics

LLM slop.

BPFDoor malware has emerged as a serious threat to Linux systems

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