Microsoft Signing Key Stolen by Chinese - Schneier on Security
(www.schneier.com)
from sv1sjp@lemmy.world to cybersecurity@infosec.pub on 07 Aug 2023 20:33 +0000
https://lemmy.world/post/2830266
from sv1sjp@lemmy.world to cybersecurity@infosec.pub on 07 Aug 2023 20:33 +0000
https://lemmy.world/post/2830266
#cybersecurity
Jesus fucking Christ… I really did not expect this from Microsoft I have to say. The first one is strange already but the second one? Really looking forward to their explanation of this cluster fuck…
Ooops!? I mean what can a person really say about this other than this was an epic failure on Microsoft’s part. Either through hubris, lack of oversight, or just good plain old incompetence of management the Chinese have the keys to the castle. This really highlights the inherent weakness of proprietary software solutions and (in)security through obscurity. This is why everything I do that is not related to my job as a Windows desktop support engineer is going to be on open source.
How does one even recover from this. I guess the assumption stays the same that everything on a corp network is compromised. Can’t imagine this is going to win Azure new business for DoD workloads.
Maybe our government shouldn’t be using corporate products. Maybe we should use that shit ton of money in our military budget to create our own software.
The government could save so much money gathering data directly instead of buying it from Microsoft.
Remember the OPM hack? Remember when pretty much every bit of PII for everyone in the government leaked? What makes you think the US government could do a better job?
I failed in sarcasm.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Star_OS
Apple OSX clone.
This sort of thing is exactly the reason why I don’t want things like TMP and Pluton built into my computer hardware. Microsoft is incompetent at best and outright malicious at worst, and allowing them to add “security features” directly at the hardware level is madness IMO.
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