“This is not a happy story in terms of the security of the U.S.,” said Tony Sager, who spent more than three decades as a computer scientist at the National Security Agency.

“This is not security. This is security theater.”
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https://www.propublica.org/article/microsoft-cloud-fedramp-cybersecurity-government?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1774644903&utm_medium=social&utm_source=threads
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.

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@propublica And now I suppose that critical national national security contractors have transitioned to Windows 11/Office 365 and that cloud for much of their day to day non-classified work?
Can you say vulnerability?
Single point of failure?
Yes or no? Do we know for certain?
And to think they were so worried about routers not made in USA.