Microsoft FUD From Microsoft Site Helps Distract From Actual Microsoft Back Doors
Published on a Sunday:
Reminders about The New Stack: "Microsoft is a Sponsor of The New Stack." | Microsoft-sponsored "The New Stack" Publishing Microsoft Windows Articles in "Linux" Clothing | Joab Jackson and "The New Stack" Publishing Microsoft Spam (E.E.E. Against Linux) for a Payment From Microsoft | The New Stack, Sponsored by Microsoft: Pay Us Money to Read Promotion of Slop Composed by Microsofters to Sell Their Proprietary Slopware
Last month: Decades-Long Microsofter (Darryl K. Taft) and TIOBE Conflate Microsoft GitHub (Proprietary) With FOSS in Microsoft-Sponsored 'News' Site (same site)
An attack on "XZ Utils" recently made a surprise comeback after nearly 2 years. The tentative (but intercepted) hole in Xz was a case of social engineering in Microsoft GitHub (proprietary) and it was 'discovered' by Microsoft, then advertised by Microsoft, only a few days before the US blasted Microsoft for security failures (Microsoft had failed at every level). We wrote so much about this at the time. We can revisit that or share relevant links if someone wishes to challenge our recollection or narrative.
Mainstream news sites don't typically publish on Sundays, but the above says "Commonhaus is a two-year-old nonprofit Schnabel launched with Ken Finnigan and Cesar Saavedra. They are trying to address deep-rooted problems in open-source software."
Notice the dash.
As an associate put it, "is Commonhaus legit or is it another Snyk / Black Duck?"
It is "probably not as it is built around Microsoft GitHub," he added.
The press is now doing with "Xz" what it spent over a decade doing with "Heartbleed" (also Microsoft-connected FUD, "former" Microsoft staff hyped it up after lying about "discovering" it).
Commonhaus Foundation has collaborations with companies like Microsoft. It moreover outsourced to Microsoft (NSA), which means security is not its true goal. It boasts about a CoC in every page of its Web site, which means it resists criticism. All the hallmarks of a corporate front group, disguised as "non-profit". █