I've been working with Microsoft products since about 1989. It has been mostly miserable, like living with a schizophrenic gorilla. You wake up in the morning and don't know how fucked your day is going to be. Dealing with them has been absolutely impossible even when you were one of their "gold" tier partners back in the day.
I hope the promise of a July 14th threat goes as planned. They need to hurt. And everyone needs to see the risks they are taking by using their products.
I know someone who works for a nefarious gov org and they never put the bitlocker keys in the TPM on their laptops. You have to enter the password yourself on power up.
You don't need to be thinking of any specific vulnerability to realize that putting the decryption key next to the data you're trying to protect is a dumb idea.
If for example a laptop like that gets lost or stolen, the attacker has the data and the key, in a box they physically hold, with no attempt limit, and unless they actively mess with the boot process, it will happily load the key into memory for them. If it's a discrete TPM the attacker can likely sniff the key on the wire. If that doesn't work, they just need to find a vuln anywhere in the secure boot process, or in Windows, and again, they have the key. And if that doesn't work, they could sniff the memory bus, or do a cold boot attack (again, with unlimited attempts unless they irreparably damage the mainboard/TPM in the process).
This is never going to materialise. It’s dead in under 2 years.
The market is shrinking and saturated already and it’s not because of AI gains but geopolitical instability and supply chain issues, some of which are caused by AI spending and stupid ass PE firms refocusing on AI supply chains.
Wait do you have any numbers to back this up? Every number that I've seen contradicts this. Most sectors have positive revenue growth, even non tech sectors. Technology purchasing is increasing in every bucket (software, IT services, devices, communications, and of course DCs). Retail and food-service sales are up MoM and YoY. Personal consumption is up 0.2% in real terms. I assume by service models you're just talking about AI? I actually may agree with you but this is clearly not true for long if it is true today.
I'm reminded of that [terrifying in hind-sight] Newt Gingrich interview in which he was more concerned about his constituents feelings about things getting worse than any silly statistics provided by government agencies.
I get that this is supposed to be unproductive snark, but the real answer is probably to then sort the spreadsheet and assign a tier system of how annoying and useless each person in it is.
It was not snark (an uncharitable read I must say). The point was everyone is being forced to use AI. So keeping a shitlist is going to be a very, very short term solution.
Maybe we need a split between source management and distribution? The former looks like git[hub] to me, the latter maybe more like a Linux distro repo?
I hope the promise of a July 14th threat goes as planned. They need to hurt. And everyone needs to see the risks they are taking by using their products.
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