Federal Cyber Experts Thought Microsoft’s Cloud Was “a Pile of Shit.” They Approved It Anyway.

A federal program created to protect the government against cyber threats authorized a sprawling Microsoft cloud product, despite the company’s inability to fully explain how it protects sensitive data.

ProPublica

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47426057

maybe uh

maybe stop using azure

Federal Cyber Experts Called Microsoft's Cloud "A Pile of Shit", yet Approved It | Hacker News

@Viss At old *pretend* job <plausibly denied redacted NDA bypass> spent literal tens of millions employing Microsoft directly to take an age to roll out this 'new' >cough< azure infrastructure as code yaml failed bollocks (not my idea, complained vociferously, board overruled) only for them to say when asked what they do instead "oh hell no we don't do that anymore..." heh most of their offerings are nerfed tf in a feeble effort to try keep it secure... guess what
@nf3xn but they have your money now