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Microsoft suggests command line fiddling to get Windows 10 update installed

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Re: Microsoft suggests command line fiddling to get Windows 10 update installed

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Post by dijit »

> meant to address a vulnerability that allowed attackers to bypass BitLocker encryption by using the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE).

How can you screw up so badly that you even have the ability to bypass the entire reason for a security feature existing?

Sorry to be mean to Microsoft, I am certain there's usability reasons for this, but sincerely: principle of least surprise please.

I'd be incredibly surprised if Linux kept a copy of my unlock keys around somewhere that were available to anyone except me. That is a truly monumental fuck-up.

Re: Microsoft suggests command line fiddling to get Windows 10 update installed

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Post by EspadaV9 » 

    When installing the update, some users are finding themselves faced with an 0x80070643 error, a generic failure message. Unfortunately, according to Microsoft, "because of an error in the error code handling routine," this might not be the correct error.
Error in the error code code is giving the wrong error code for the error.

I'm curious how often the error code code needs touching that there is an error in there that hasn't been patched long ago. I would imagine it would be a set and forget kind of thing. Unless this error in the error code code has been there for a long time but unnoticed. In which case there might be a errors in the QA of the error code code.

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