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Windows and Microsoft Causing Serious Data Breaches, Media Rushes to Blame That on "Linux" Somehow

posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 06, 2025,
updated May 06, 2025

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While selling us some rusty old propaganda about how moving to Microsoft GitHub (Rust) will improve security

Last summer: A Week After a Worldwide Windows Outage Microsoft is 'Bricking' Windows All On Its Own, Cannot Blame Others Anymore

2 months ago: Using FUD That Blames "Linux" for Typos, Turning It Into LLM Slop That Blames "Linux" for Typos

We've been seeing many reports like this one for the past week, mostly but not only here in the UK. This one has the following headline: "Ransomware Group Claims Attacks on UK Retailers" (already filed under "Windows TCO", just like prior reports about the same thing).

It says "DragonForce, cybersecurity firm SentinelOne explains, relies on phishing emails, the exploitation of known vulnerabilities, and stolen credentials for initial access."

However, an associate points out that this article is still milking Apache Log4j for FUD purposes, just like some slopfarms still do in 2025 (the chatbot text/FUD gets spewed out by Microsoft-controlled LLMs [1, 2]) and Microsoft staff inside the Linux Foundation does the same thing (without disclosing the conflict of interest); the associate explains it seems that ransomware companies are starting to add attacks that could theoretically breach certain Linux systems under specific theoretical circumstances which don't actually occur in the wild.

Consider this example from Monday. The real issue here is that Microsoft transmits malware to GNU/Linux machines, but the press wants people to think it's something wrong in Linux rather than Microsoft "neglect" (at best). If one looks carefully and closely enough, the culprits all start with "github" i.e. Microsoft. (Sometimes it's Microsoft's npm [1, 2])

The associate hypothesises that the reason for the FUD appears to be to scare Windows victims and make them wrongly believe that there is nothing to be gained - security-wise at least - by abandoning Microsoft Windows.

Likewise, Microsoft-connected sites have been ramping up their WSL chaff, in effect encouraging people to stay with Windows while calling it "Linux".

This associate points out that another ongoing problem is the control that the Microsofters have over: Hacker News (HN), Conde Nast's Reddit, what's left of Slashdot, and, most importantly, Xitter / Bytedance's TikTok / Meta's Facebook as well as OEMs (some stray away, gradually). "Through the first three," the associate insists, "they are able to prevent discussion of software freedom and even marginalise those who bring it up."

This is what social control media exists for: control by censorship among other means. It is controlled "media". Controlled by who? Its true owners. Governments that break into your phone to assassinate you and then use "body doubles" to pretend it never happened. █

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