• 0 Posts
  • 9 Comments
Joined 2 years ago
cake
Cake day: September 12th, 2023

help-circle

  • Setting aside the fact that legally a corporation actually is a person, there is such a thing as a corporate culture, and a corporate ethos.

    Let’s start with an old microsoft ethos: embrace extend extinguish

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish

    Now don’t try to tell me I made it up, there’s enough evidence for it to have its own wiki page.

    Similarly there’s FUD an approach they most certainly didnt invent but did an excellent job of weaponising to a fine art.

    And so on and so forth. Those of us who have been around a while know the true shape of it, and that leopard has never changed its spots.

    I got my MCSE on NT4 back when CNE was much more respected. I still work in IT so yes I too use both windows & linux, that doesn’t stop me having a clear eyed view of them.

    They’re also not the worst by a long chalk, google, meta, palantir are all far less principled and far more detrimental to society.

    M$ still arent good though, and its woven into their culture





  • <sigh> I used to be one of those sysadmins, and the short answer is appropriate risk management, better network controls a locked down OS and immediate action to push out the patches for serious issues.

    I quite frankly detest M$ but keeping your pc patched isn’t propaganda.

    If you know enough to manage the risk (including proper network firewalls and good internet hygiene) then sure, keep going for a while. Zero days aren’t daily, they’re a handful per year.

    On the other hand if you have no clue about ITSec then you genuinely need to upgrade asap because you’re metaphorically running around with your genitals exposed.

    Your comment leads me to suggest you probably dont have the skills to do an appropriate risk assessment.

    But you do you. I’m not your Dad