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Security Boulevard is a Microsoft-Connected Attack Site Created by a Free Software-Hostile Person

Anti-FOSS is to be expected. It's the business model.

Alan Shimel
This is the founder of Security Boulevard attacking Stallman simply because he occasionally speaks of Palestinians' human rights (article bumped up by the publisher earlier this summer)



Summary: Free/Open Source software (FOSS) is being discredited using an aggregator of Microsoft-connected FUD firms, concurring with or confirming the Halloween Documents that suggested attacking FOSS by proxy

OUR daily links can be tricky to prepare because we're reluctant to link to FUD and misinformation. So years ago we added the "Openwashing" section to it and under "Security" we often add editorial comments (corrections and clarification attempts). The FUD typically comes from the same domains. For instance, sites called "Windows" something or "Microsoft" something are likely to be Linux-hostile sources (sometimes they push Vista 10 under the guise of "Linux", e.g. WSL).



"The FUD typically comes from the same domains. For instance, sites called "Windows" something or "Microsoft" something are likely to be Linux-hostile sources (sometimes they push Vista 10 under the guise of "Linux", e.g. WSL)."A lot of FOSS FUD is also sourced back to ZDNet, which became an anti-FOSS propaganda machine, funded in part by Microsoft (Microsoft buys ads and bias from CBS, the parent company). Last night we saw "Lilu/Lilocked ransomware has now infected thousands of Linux servers" (this is the third such 'report' we see; it started with ZDNet where this got disseminated and spun as a major "Linux" issue).

Then there's Security Boulevard, where the 'content' is rarely original. They mostly attack licensing and security aspects of Free software. It's endemic. This gateway-as-a-'news'-site acts as an amplifier/loudspeaker/megaphone of anti-FOSS firms, usually Microsoft-connected ones. WhiteSource is to Microsoft the 'new' Black Duck and it's a regular feature there, along with Black Duck's parent company, Snyk, and other parasites looking to sell themselves by bashing FOSS.

Security Boulevard and WhiteSource are now working together on a "webinar" (published days ago); WhiteSource also works closely with Microsoft (co-authoring anti-FOSS papers and they are formally partners). This means that Shimel at Security Boulevard is indirectly in bed with Microsoft and is likely 'in it' to attack FOSS. It's not hard to see whose voice he's looking to facilitate. His track record was mentioned here last month and many times a decade ago when he published FOSS-hostile pieces in IDG's "Open Source" section [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] (also see the screenshot at the top). That section of IDG (the "Open Source Subnet") was, at least at the time, infested with people who neither understood nor liked FOSS. In fact the "Open Source Subnet" was like an extension of their "Microsoft Subnet"; only the titles varied.

As recently as days ago we saw Microsoft-connected firms (anti-FOSS FUD firms, including WhiteSource, as we noted half a decade back) again being boosted with their anti-FOSS venom by this anti-FOSS, anti-RMS, pro-Microsoft Shimel-founded Security Boulevard. It's like its sole role is to propel these firms into Google News, 'dressing up' corporate lies as 'news'.

Be careful, people; the site is pure poison which amplifies more poison. It amplifies Microsoft partners, whose principal role is delegitimising FOSS.

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