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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

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Post by duxup »

wtetzner wrote: post #37
erikbye wrote: post #36

Earlier 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.

Admittedly I'm prone to posting stories and I'm thinking of not doing so / doing it less.

Look at this story. Some guy, who honestly seems to have pretty questionable judgment did a thing and it was a bad idea.

What does that really have to do with this challenge from MS about a custom version of Linux? I would say almost nothing.

Re: Microsoft offers $100k to hack its custom Linux OS

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Post by wahern »

duxup wrote: post #50
INTPenis wrote: post #23

Clearly 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…

I feel like his choices by using a device that is for work ... kinda automatically makes me question what if anything we can learn from a technical perspective. If his judgment is that bad on a basic level, how bad must it be on a technical level?

Many people confuse absence of evidence (of insecurity) with evidence of absence (of insecurity). Just look at the SARS-CoV-2 reporting in January and February, where every major media outlet copied stories about how the flu is much worse and that we should really be worrying about the flu. It was patently ridiculous to be making such assertions as the only thing certain at the time was the depth of our uncertainty.

The dilemma is that equating absence of evidence with evidence of absence is actually a good long-term strategy in our day-to-day lives. Without this strategy we'd be paralyzed by our own ignorance; particularly, paradoxically, those aware of their ignorance. It's a meta-skill to be able to identify when the heuristic should be discarded in favor of more rigorous analytical thinking. A capacity for analytical thinking isn't sufficient by itself, thus making such an error in judgement doesn't necessarily imply an absence of strong analytical thinking skills. (At least, that's what I tell myself ;)

Re: Microsoft offers $100k to hack its custom Linux OS

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Post by fattire »

erikbye wrote: post #35
A4ET8a8uTh0 wrote: post #13

I 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.

Is it trite to mention the Halloween documents?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_documents

Re: Microsoft offers $100k to hack its custom Linux OS

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Post by CraftThatBlock »

egberts1 wrote: post #59
CraftThatBlock wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you provide a source? I could find any references looking at the source. Also, that's not an Ubuntu version

https://github.com/crpietschmann/AzureSphereOS Ubuntu.

Ctrl+F "Ubuntu" - No results.

Seems to be using parts of code from Ubuntu, but that doesn't mean it is Ubuntu.

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