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Windows is not the problematic Microsoft product. Not even close. If you understood how much of the US infrastructure and controls are consolidated under Microsoft cloud services, you'd never sleep again. Cloud was fine back when it was a product catering small and medium companies but when large corporations started migrating their critical infrastructures to cloud services to offload responsibilities, we really went off into the weeds.
No need to be quite so cloak and dagger mate, it fairly obviously to any one who pauses to think.
People have been calling out the problems of corporate oligarchy for more than a decade. This is merely part of that .
It’s systemic risk, not merely technical
He's not being cloak and dagger. He's an old guy (double spacer spotted) who works in the military or private sector under NDA and can't talk about it.
Or he's LARPing. But the double spaces make me believe him.
Spot on. 51yo. Corporate. NDA'd to hell and back.
Didn't stop Snowden. :)