Microsoft, the self-appointed unelected guardians of democracy who will privately decide what is and what is not a threat.
We are taking new steps against broadening threats to democracy
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#42I find it peculiar that this announcement comes out following the establishment of a link between Soros funded orgs and the facebook/twitter/et. al censorship. Seems fairly coincidental.
I an not fond of the idea of tech companies electing themselves guardians of democracy. In fact I think there should be a total ban on corporations involvement in politics.
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#43"...It’s clear that democracies around the world are under attack..." Yup, and it's very clear which country is responsible for performing most of those attacks. Is Microsoft offering any solutions to protect the rest of the world too?: "...the country intervening in most foreign elections is the United States with 81 interventions, followed by Russia (including the former Soviet Union) with 36 interventions from 194…
Really? Going to hold actions taken over 70 years ago against the US of today?
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#44This is nothing more than a thinly veiled Office 365 marketing ploy. If their 2FA is anything like what they’ve done with Azure I wouldn’t be holding my breath. Microsoft is barely out on parole in my eyes from their horrid security and privacy track record, and has shown many signs of recividism to be engaging in this charade.
They're session security is hilarious.. a session token is still valid for at least 6 hours after logging out.. even after their humorous advice to close all browser tabs (which as expected doesn't do anything server side)
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
Your grandma comment is misguided. Your parent comment has a good point. If a system is sending out sensitive data, there is a way to figure it out by setting breakpoints and reverse engineering the payload that is getting encrypted. Once a researcher finds whether or not sensitive data is being sent, the researcher can publish the information so that your grandma can know about it and she can have the transparency a…
Or, you know, demand from the vendor to supply a system that doesn't need a researcher, who was able to secure a funding for such an endeavor. Meanwhile, the point still stands: windows phones home, sends out the data, which are encrypted in transport, obfuscated inside, and the user has zero control about it. Requiring the user to prove which data were send and which weren't is dishonest; it is the vendor who has th…
Problem is that Microsoft still enjoys a practical monopoly on workstations and desktops, so there's very little pressure for them to actual do what people are asking. Case in point: we still have forced updates and ads in the start menu.
If there were a worthwhile competitor, I know a lot of people who would switch in a heartbeat, but even then Microsoft probably wouldn't care. I am increasingly convinced that it is Microsoft's unstated goal to kill off desktop personal computing entirely so they can push people into a subscription-based cloud service for everything.
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#46Fascinating. As of this moment, this page seems to have far more virulent anti-Microsoft sentiment than I can recall seeing in any HN posting recently. It's almost as if people are blaming the messenger for some reason.
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#47"It’s clear that democracies around the world are under attack. Foreign entities are launching cyber strikes to disrupt elections and sow discord. Unfortunately, the internet has become an avenue for some governments to steal and leak information, spread disinformation, and probe and potentially attempt to tamper with voting systems. We saw this during the United States general election in 2016, last May during the F…
It's not a political position. It's a statement of fact (excluding your presumption, which wasn't implied in the article) supported by both national political parties and the sitting president. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/17/us/politics/trump-putin-r...
> It's not a political position.
It is indeed a political position.
> It's a statement of fact
Sure, but it's still in the domain of politics.
Re: We are taking new steps against broadening threats to democracy
#48"...It’s clear that democracies around the world are under attack..." Yup, and it's very clear which country is responsible for performing most of those attacks. Is Microsoft offering any solutions to protect the rest of the world too?: "...the country intervening in most foreign elections is the United States with 81 interventions, followed by Russia (including the former Soviet Union) with 36 interventions from 194…
Really? Going to hold actions taken over 70 years ago against the US of today?
The research results quoted contain election interferences between 1945 and 2000. Since then it has only become far worse. So no, it's not been 70 years ago since the last election interference conducted by the US and yes I am holding this kind of action against the United States and so should you:
https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-interfered-in-elections-of-...
Re: We are taking new steps against broadening threats to democracy
#49"...It’s clear that democracies around the world are under attack..." Yup, and it's very clear which country is responsible for performing most of those attacks. Is Microsoft offering any solutions to protect the rest of the world too?: "...the country intervening in most foreign elections is the United States with 81 interventions, followed by Russia (including the former Soviet Union) with 36 interventions from 194…
Really? Going to hold actions taken over 70 years ago against the US of today?
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#50Because who better than Microsoft to save our democracy? I can't think of anyone ... oh wait ... I can! What about Apple and Google? Yes. Please. Apple, Microsoft and Google - together - save our democracies! You are the only ones who can. Thank you. -- the little people
Hoping for a corporate congress?