I teach cybersecurity. And I genuinely don't know what to tell my students after this one. Federal reviewers spent years trying to get basic encryption documentation from Microsoft for its GCC High government cloud. They couldn't get it. One reviewer called the system a "pile of spaghetti pies," with data traveling from point A to point B the way you'd get from Chicago to New York: a bus to St. Louis, a ferry to Pittsburgh, and a flight to Newark. Each leg is a potential hijacking. They knew this. They said this out loud in writing. Then they approved it anyway in December 2024, because too many agencies were already using it. 🔐 That's not a security review. That's a hostage negotiation. Two things in this story should make every CISO and CIO uncomfortable:

🧩 Microsoft built its federal cloud on top of decades of legacy code that it apparently can't fully document itself
👮 "Digital escorts" often ex-military with minimal software engineering backgrounds are the firewall between Chinese engineers working on the system and classified U.S. networks 🤦🏻‍♂️

The scariest line in the whole ProPublica investigation isn't the "pile of shit" quote. It's this: FedRAMP determined that refusing authorization wasn't feasible because agencies were already using the product. Read that again. The security review process reached a conclusion based on sunk cost, not risk. Ex Post Facto Fallacy

If that logic holds, the compliance framework is just documentation theater. And right now, CISA is being hollowed out, so there are fewer people left to even run the theater.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/03/federal-cyber-experts-called-microsofts-cloud-a-pile-of-shit-approved-it-anyway/
#Cybersecurity #Microsoft #FedRAMP #Leadership #RiskManagement #security #privacy #cloud #infosec

*Company makes my life worse through their product*

I will boycott this product

*Company continues making my life worse, now through externalities*

How do I boycott an externality

☝️Note: Emails are only truly confidential when sent with end-to-end encryption.

Setting up E2E encryption in #MicrosoftOutlook is possible, but it's a BIG hassle & it's only for paid plans. 🚩

Luckily, there are providers like Tuta Mail that end-to-end encrypt the whole message including the subject line... by default. 🔐

Find out what the options are for sending secure emails in Outlook : https://tuta.com/blog/sending-secure-emails-outlook

RE: https://mastodon.com.pl/@m0bi/116314052149903828

Behold the work of ants. Wood ants are so amazing. They have a whole city in there. They make these massive mounds to better collect solar radiation and heat their nest.

On warm days in early spring when sun hits the mound they will come out en mass to warm their bodies in the sun. Then they run deep into the nest where the ground is still cold. When they get cold again they come back out and warm themselves again.

They heat depths of the nest in this manner.

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Czytam, że po ram i dyskach, ajajaj zabierze nam też procesory, bo bardziej opłaca się produkować serwerowe.

Powiadam wam, że mamy na ziemi sporo już wyprodukowanych, świetnych komputerów. Używanych. Poleasingowych. Różnych.

Linux na nich działa rewelacyjnie (pisze to z i5 8Gen / KDE Neon).

A jak software śmiga zbyt wolno, to można go optymalizować 😉 Taka pradawna sprawdzona metoda, z czasów, gdy w PC było dostępne jedynie 640kb RAM!

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Processor-shortage-to-become-acute-in-the-coming-months-11228081.html

#Linux #PC #hardware #CPU