This is an absolutely brutal takedown of #Microsoft. How they aren't drowning in lawsuits. 🤷‍♂️

I totally understand the resistance to disabling smart card #SSO for the US govt. That's a huge change (but NYPD did it 🤔)

But MS should have been working on this non stop to help detect/mitigate. Then to outright lie about when they knew.

How any security professional could say 'well it requires access to the server' as a boundary. 😂

#SolarWinds #ADFS #InfoSec #SAML

https://www.propublica.org/article/microsoft-solarwinds-golden-saml-data-breach-russian-hackers

Nice to see companies putting real effort into leveraging federal assistance to get the most value out of it.

#USCellular #5G

https://www.rcrwireless.com/20240513/5g/what-does-it-take-to-cover-rural-america-with-5g-uscellulars-ceo-breaks-it-down

I just don't understand Google's continued ban on advertising by 3rd party tech support businesses. We have been in business for over 15 years and have a 5.0 review rating with hundreds of reviews. We want to give you money... You have SO much data - I guarantee you could come up with a way to verify legitimate businesses quite easily.

#MSP #TechSupport #Google #AdWords #OnlineAds #InfoTech

Any company right now: You want some AI?

Me: Not particularly, thanks

Company: Got it, here's a big huge heaping helping of AI

Me: No thank you please

Company: Make job go fast, do vroom vroom on your career:

Me: I don't really…

Company: We put AI IN YOUR FREAKING MOUSE DRIVERS CAN YOU BELIEVE IT

Me: Kinda but not really

Company: Here's AI tools for your software engineering

Me: These are really obtrusive and in my w…

COMPANY: YOU WILL LOVE OUR AI

Me: …

Your regular reminder that if not for the Trump and Bush tax cuts, federal revenues would keep pace with federal spending indefinitely.

Instead, these tax cuts have added $10 trillion to the debt.

The so called "party of fiscal responsibility" is full of it.

A pack horse librarian delivering books in rural Kentucky in 1938. During the Great Depression, the Pack Horse Library Project was a Works Progress Administration (WPA) program in which the librarians, who were often called "book women" or "book ladies," delivered books to remote parts of Appalachia.

source: https://www.facebook.com/GoodwillLibrarian

#books #library #PublicWorks #WPA #reading #bookstodon @bookstodon