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| *Topic for #boycottnovell is: TechRights.org | Channel #boycottnovell for http://TechRights.org | Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those who oppose software freedom :: please also join channels #techrights and #boycottnovell-social | Apr 22 05:13 | |
| *Topic for #boycottnovell set by schestowitz!~roy@haii6za73zabc.irc at Tue Jun 1 20:22:10 2021 | Apr 22 05:13 | |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | > Hi Roy, | Apr 22 08:05 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | > | Apr 22 08:05 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > This week's blog post looks at the roots of attacks on education to | Apr 22 08:05 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > keep people stupid and compliant around digital technology. | Apr 22 08:05 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > | Apr 22 08:05 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > https://cybershow.uk/blog/posts/miscalculation | Apr 22 08:05 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > | Apr 22 08:05 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > One way cybersecurity got so bad is through declining education. Many | Apr 22 08:05 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > people understand the risks of insecure software, but don't realise | Apr 22 08:05 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > popular brands like Microsoft and Google are dangerous, because | Apr 22 08:05 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > educators are too timid or confused to tell them. | Apr 22 08:05 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > | Apr 22 08:05 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > Finally some are catching on... an ex-White House cyber policy | Apr 22 08:05 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > director now says that "Microsoft is a national security threat". | Apr 22 08:05 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > | Apr 22 08:05 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/21/microsoft_national_security_risk/ | Apr 22 08:05 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > | Apr 22 08:05 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > School teacher should be telling this to children, not encouraging | Apr 22 08:05 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > them to use products from these companies. | Apr 22 08:05 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | it's own future > its own future | Apr 22 08:05 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2024/04/22/An_unfortunate_miscalculation_of_capital.shtml | Apr 22 08:05 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Can I have your permission to reprint in techrights with attribution and link tom original? It's spot on and on-topic. | Apr 22 08:05 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | I saw the El Reg article last night. It did not go far enough. | Apr 22 08:05 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | > Morning Roy, | Apr 22 11:18 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > | Apr 22 11:18 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > Yes I'm happy if you do a full reprint if in its entirety - it's a bit | Apr 22 11:18 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > lengthy but I have no time to edit it down right now, cheers! | Apr 22 11:18 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > | Apr 22 11:18 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > all good wishes, | Apr 22 11:18 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Thanks for quickly granting permission. | Apr 22 11:18 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Before I read the later message I had reproduced it with the following corrections: | Apr 22 11:18 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | it's -> its in | Apr 22 11:18 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | away it's own future | Apr 22 11:18 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | it's democratising influence | Apr 22 11:18 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | The West has had it's own much slower-burning purge | Apr 22 11:18 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | it's direction is important | Apr 22 11:18 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "are relegated to faults," - full stop? | Apr 22 11:18 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Or is that by intention. left as is. | Apr 22 11:18 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > Roy, Ive made a few small corrections since this morning. | Apr 22 11:19 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > | Apr 22 11:19 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > Lots of apostrophe pedantry from the internet :) | Apr 22 11:19 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > | Apr 22 11:19 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > Helen noted it would be*great* if you can end on a link to our | Apr 22 11:19 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > Boudica Cybersecurity, and maybe say that more "joined-up thinking" is | Apr 22 11:19 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > the ethos of our school. | Apr 22 11:19 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > | Apr 22 11:19 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > many thanks | Apr 22 11:19 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Yes, I can still edit the text or add bits of HTML, I will check email again later today ;-) | Apr 22 11:19 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | >> Finally some are catching on... an ex-White House cyber policy | Apr 22 11:23 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | >> director now says that "Microsoft is a national security threat". | Apr 22 11:23 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > | Apr 22 11:23 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > We've been here before. There are, somewhere in the older Links, | Apr 22 11:23 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > articles from decades past calling out m$ as a a national security | Apr 22 11:23 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > threat. It is essential to find those and move the counter forward | Apr 22 11:23 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > rather than starting at zero again. | Apr 22 11:23 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > | Apr 22 11:23 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > MSFT? Double-tap to be sure. | Apr 22 11:23 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | http://techrights.org/o/2021/07/19/microsoft-national-security/ | Apr 22 11:23 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | Here is a recent one, but which only focuses on the monoculture not the shoddy design and piss poor implementation: | Apr 22 11:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/files/documents/cyber/IEEE%20-%20IT%20Monoculture.pdf | Apr 22 11:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | It also fails to call out the inherently insecure nature of proprietary software. | Apr 22 11:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Still looking. This is not it: | Apr 22 11:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.networkworld.com/article/895510/software-retiring-exec-tells-microsoft-to-embrace-open-source.html | Apr 22 11:24 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | There was some colonel or similar, IIRC, in the late 1990s which called out m$ insecurity as a threat to national security. | Apr 22 11:24 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.strassmann.com/pubs/computerworld/ms-security.shtml | Apr 22 11:25 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "Microsoft: A U.S. Security Threat" by Paul A. Strassmann | Apr 22 11:25 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | originally from /Computerworld/ published November 30, 1998 | Apr 22 11:25 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | can't find the original atm | Apr 22 11:25 |
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| schestowitz[TR2] | > Please feel free to make minor punctuation or grammar corrections I've | Apr 22 19:20 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | > missed Roy. | Apr 22 19:20 |
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