Time for Microsoft to Rebrand to Fit the Vapourware (Ponzi Scheme)
2021:
2025: Definitely Not a Ponzi Scheme
Today:
Nadella's public performance this year started with the Ponzi tour, just as we expected. It's the same as last year. Ponzi economics to distract from realpolitiks and real economy.
If Nadella reads this, he should seriously consider the following 'winning steps':
- Rebrand "XBox" to "cloud gaming thingie";
- "Office 360" to become "Web address slop thingie";
- "Windows" just "Co-pAIlot";
- "Bing" becomes "AIng";
- And instead of "AI CEO" just have one CEO called "Godfather".
Then, finally, Microsoft becomes "Beta", something between Meta and Alphabet. Change the logo and pretend Microsoft is just a subsidiary of "Beta":
Everything from Microsoft is Beta. Makes sense. Report bugs. To the NSA first*. They like bugs. █
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* It's a GAFAM thing. Published two months ago:
Apple OSes Are Insecure By Design To Aid Surveillance
I have a theory that I believe is supported by enough evidence for you to believe it, as well.
Mind you, this is definitionally a conspiracy theory; please don’t let the connotations of that phrase bias you, but please feel free to read this (and everything else on the internet) as critically as you wish.
I believe that Apple is preserving unencrypted server connections in their operating systems in an effort to enable global location tracking of their userbase by passive monitoring of major internet backbones.
This is supported by timelines and context, which will be provided.
Several important connections (TSS, OCSP) are made from Apple devices in plaintext (that is, completely unencrypted). This began for historical reasons, but has been repeatedly reported to Apple. They have not fixed it.
TSS checks happen on update. OCSP checks happen, among other times, on app launch.
Apple committed in writing a few major versions (i.e. ~3 years ago) to providing a preference setting for disabling online OCSP checks in macOS when I made a stink about it, within one year. Not only did this not happen within a year (a rare instance of Apple actually outright lying), but someone was kind enough to write me and tell me that Apple has edited the webpage to remove this promise. Presumably there are no plans to offer users ability to disable OCSP checking, which leaks which apps are being launched on your system, when you launch them.