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

Besorgnis über Israels Pläne zur Todesstrafe - Appell europäischer Außenminister

Israel will die Todesstrafe ausweiten - nur für Palästinenser. Europäische Außenminister, darunter auch Wadephul, warnen vor der Erschütterung demokratischer Grundsätze - und dem "diskriminierenden Charakter" des Entwurfs.

➡️ https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/asien/kritik-todesstrafe-israel-100.html?at_medium=mastodon&at_campaign=tagesschau.de

#Israel #Todesstrafe

Israel killed this journalist in Lebanon in a double-tap killing two hours after this report.

Israel does not want their new war of occupation documented.

Some 20 years ago, I said in some blog post “Israel is a terrorist state” and I was hounded for years by Zionists that would make sure all my bosses knew about it.

It just took 20 or so years for this to be generally acknowledged, and soon, hopefully people won’t pay a financial price for speaking up about this apartheid regime.

https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03/26/us-iran-mines-israel-village-missile-munitions-weapons-war-conflict/

RED FUCKING ALERT

The United States is dropping land mines around villages in Iran. Images posted to social media Thursday show what experts said are U.S. land mines dispersed across a residential area in southern Iran, in what appears to be the first instance in more than two decades of American forces using the weapons.

The photos show American BLU-91/B anti-tank land mines, which are released from an aircraft as part of the Gator mine scattering system, according to four munitions experts who reviewed the imagery at The Washington Post’s request. The United States is the only party in the Iran war known to possess the system.

LAND MINES ARE A WAR CRIME! What in the actual fuck are we doing here? This is a violation of law, of sense, and of humanity. Den Hague for everyone involved.

#landmine #us #warcrimes #iran

DSP? Where we correct room audio, we don't need a DSP! 💅

https://github.com/andreasdotorg/mugge