Cybersecurity Means Real Security, Not Back Doors
Cybersecurity is an issue we've long covered here, as did the sister site, courtesy of Cyber Show (C|S).
Cybersecurity isn't something you learn in a course about genetics; nor is it something you acquire credentials in by asking a friend to write a Wikipedia page about you.
Our friends at Soylent News are currently debating fake security in Vista 10 ("Developer Warns Users That Fake Download Site is Hosting Windows 11 Upgrade Bypass Tool") and an associate has said, see the 1st comment (or top comment, as ranked), which says: "I'm not sure that "person declares site is dodgy" really hits the mark as news. Surely there are half a million dodgy sites already available for gullible marks. The simple promise that this will beat those pesky TPM checks proves there is a complete lack of understanding about what Trust is (the letter T in TPM stands for Trusted)."
Indeed, TPM has almost nothing to do with security. There is another Soylent News debate about "PBS pushing the Microsoft party line", as the associate has put it, perhaps knowing that PBS is funded by Bill Gates to relay falsehoods, not only about himself and Microsoft.
Last week or just over a week ago we confronted pushers of fake security or anti-security (de facto kill switches). While it's not yet know who "won" we know we did what we needed to do. The above-mentioned associate has relayed the following new article, "Do What You Believe In" (rather than what monopolists tell you to do and pay you to say).
The article deals with political hypocrites, not with technology or snake-oil peddlers that have infiltrated and ruined technology. Yesterday Daniel Pocock wrote about those types in relation to Crypto AG, which "had secretly been owned by the CIA and the German spy agency since 1970." (Debian might have a similar problem)
Standing our ground on technology and cybersecurity is an uncompromisable stance. It's what makes this site "tech" and "rights", not greed and bluff. █