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Microsoft offers $100k to hack its custom Linux OS
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Re: Microsoft offers $100k to hack its custom Linux OS
#32Clearly they've put a lot of work into this and are willing to pay out for a "3rd party audit" so to speak. But my schadenfreude is hoping for an outcome similar to what happened to an old co-worker of mine back in 2005. He was a Windows nut and we were always in a friendly competition about which ecosystem was the better one. One time he had done a bunch of modifications to his own laptop OS, IDS, and tweaking servi…
Any chance I can get the name of that mailing list via PM?
Re: Microsoft offers $100k to hack its custom Linux OS
#33Clearly they've put a lot of work into this and are willing to pay out for a "3rd party audit" so to speak. But my schadenfreude is hoping for an outcome similar to what happened to an old co-worker of mine back in 2005. He was a Windows nut and we were always in a friendly competition about which ecosystem was the better one. One time he had done a bunch of modifications to his own laptop OS, IDS, and tweaking servi…
Any chance I can get the name of that mailing list via PM?
Can I piggy back off this request as well?
Re: Microsoft offers $100k to hack its custom Linux OS
#34Azure Sphere OS source code doesn't seem to be on GitHub. You can find it here though (filter for Azure Sphere) https://3rdpartysource.microsoft.com/
Re: Microsoft offers $100k to hack its custom Linux OS
#35I am amused that MS has its own Linux flavor, but I won't make a joke about it. I won't mention previous attempts at embrace, extend and extinguish. I want to focus on the IoT part. Do not get me wrong. I am glad MS tries to show they care about security in IoT space. Heavens know I don't want to see Starbucks microwave botnet in 2021.
> I won't mention previous attempts at embrace, extend and extinguish.
Except you did, and it's really trite.
Re: Microsoft offers $100k to hack its custom Linux OS
#36Clearly they've put a lot of work into this and are willing to pay out for a "3rd party audit" so to speak. But my schadenfreude is hoping for an outcome similar to what happened to an old co-worker of mine back in 2005. He was a Windows nut and we were always in a friendly competition about which ecosystem was the better one. One time he had done a bunch of modifications to his own laptop OS, IDS, and tweaking servi…
How about we stop using HN's comment section to tell irrelevant-to-the-story personal anecdotes? This is basically the top/most upvoted comment of every article. Surely I can't be the only one to notice this trend?
Re: Microsoft offers $100k to hack its custom Linux OS
#37Clearly they've put a lot of work into this and are willing to pay out for a "3rd party audit" so to speak. But my schadenfreude is hoping for an outcome similar to what happened to an old co-worker of mine back in 2005. He was a Windows nut and we were always in a friendly competition about which ecosystem was the better one. One time he had done a bunch of modifications to his own laptop OS, IDS, and tweaking servi…
How about we stop using HN's comment section to tell irrelevant-to-the-story personal anecdotes? This is basically the top/most upvoted comment of every article. Surely I can't be the only one to notice this trend?
I don’t see why it’s a problem. If it’s the most up-voted, then clearly people find it interesting.
Re: Microsoft offers $100k to hack its custom Linux OS
#38Clearly they've put a lot of work into this and are willing to pay out for a "3rd party audit" so to speak. But my schadenfreude is hoping for an outcome similar to what happened to an old co-worker of mine back in 2005. He was a Windows nut and we were always in a friendly competition about which ecosystem was the better one. One time he had done a bunch of modifications to his own laptop OS, IDS, and tweaking servi…
How about we stop using HN's comment section to tell irrelevant-to-the-story personal anecdotes? This is basically the top/most upvoted comment of every article. Surely I can't be the only one to notice this trend?
HN is generally focused on thought provoking discussion. Anecdotes can be very thought provoking.
Re: Microsoft offers $100k to hack its custom Linux OS
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
How about we stop using HN's comment section to tell irrelevant-to-the-story personal anecdotes? This is basically the top/most upvoted comment of every article. Surely I can't be the only one to notice this trend?
I don’t see why it’s a problem. If it’s the most up-voted, then clearly people find it interesting.
It's a problem exactly because it's up-voted, it's derailing. Happens on so many articles recently. Either derailing by a personal anecdote, or by the "middlebrow dismissal": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4693920
Both are equally derailing. In this case, I would much rather the comments be about the actual OS in question or the trend of big companies crowdsourcing security (penetration testing).
Re: Microsoft offers $100k to hack its custom Linux OS
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
I will offer an observation here: franchise production of food and drink relies upon homogeneity. Sometimes, people go out for something new, but often people want the same old thing. Someone across the country in a strange bed, where their accent sticks out, might want something familiar, and that is the experience of McDonald's in the United States. I could go from one corner of the country to another and the burge…
McDonald has very different menus in different regions, as does starbucks. I remember visiting NY and being fascinated by many of the options I've never seen in other countries.
In their Chicago HQ (ironically on Randolph Street), McDonald's has an "Global Menu" where they serve a rotating selection of items served around world. It seems that chicken is king in most other countries.