Microsoft is Attacking Computer Users. Escape Now.
Microsoft keeps trying to prevent people from escaping and Phoronix can't quite see it. Phoronix has helped the E.E.E. for years.
What Phoronix looked like yesterday (the comments, not the "articles", were illuminating):
THIS site has cautioned for a very long time about WSL and other efforts/initiatives to put back doors beneath Linux ('secure' boot is another, which is connected to WSL in the sense that it can prevent GNU/Linux installs, except when Windows is controlling those).
WSL started when Microsoft approached Canonical - a company that has since then quit promoting GNU/Linux and occasionally promotes Azure, Windows, and even .NET. This is not the sort of company or companies we should support or 'root for'... they give 'root' to criminals.
Phoronix continues to disappoint us (it's a good thing we made a policy about that site), yet it dominates many search results pertaining to Linux and as a result the community loses its voice. Instead we are exposed to more corporate nonsense from x86 giants, whose destiny is closely tied to Microsoft's.
Anyway, this new campaign from the DHS should "finally ban Windows", according to an associate, but Microsoft controls many of the security regulations in the US government, ironically enough because it puts back doors in things instead of securing things. Is this the future?
Apparently "security" has become an empty word; now it's just a catch-all excuse for putting the US government (and its allies) in charge of all computing. This is the very opposite of security; it's subjugation.
Just like Google and Apple, we're told this week that Microsoft now promotes the concept and the practices of discouraging people installing software of their choice on their own computer. Microsoft's thugs are now pushing the misnomer 'sideloading' in place of the correct term of 'installation'. To make matters worse, as it turns out, based on a Microsoft-friendly site (Neowin), "Microsoft won't let you close OneDrive in Windows without you explaining it first..."
As psydroid put it yesterday, Microsoft is "getting desperate to steal addicts' data amid layoffs" (loads of them still happening).
A public talk by Helen Plews (and Andy Farnell) covered something related to this. Helen explained how DropBox makes money, as it is not free hosting of files, but a bunch of clown resellers don't wish to truly understand what Clown Computing is really for.
As we keep reminding people every week, the doors are closing and Windows will be shut. There's still a narrow opening for those wishing to escape, but it's getting narrower over time. Yesterday a European politician said in relation to eIDAS that: "The server-side code of the eID wallet will not have to be open source, meaning the public cannot know what the code actually does and if it is safe."
We're reminded that eIDAS went through the other day and "that was the lobbyists' job," I said, "now some people will get rich from it - the same people who had hired those lobbyists..."
As per this page, QWACs are worse than a backdoor into the browsers. Now that those are in the EU, the US will 'harmonise' quickly and put backdoored certificates into all browsers. This second link goes into detail about how the lobbyists were able to cut out the FOSS security requirements on the back end. Here's the latest status.
We need to urgently convince people to reject proprietary software, proprietary operating systems, and the proprietary Web that they both facilitate. They offer the exact opposite of security (more like "Chat Control", i.e. mandated universal back doors). █