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mattfields
·tháng trước·discuss
Yep. This is the thing that Microsoft is not mentioning in their watery response there.
mattfields
·tháng trước·discuss
That's the thing: they do bear responsibility in allowing the situation to get to this point and are very pointedly not connecting the dots with their response.

Microsoft which owns GitHub, has been washing their hands if any responsibility in helping to resolve the ongoing supply chain catastrophe which is hosted and spread nearly entirely via Github repositories: not responding to security researchers flagging malware hosted on GitHub; doing nothing to address the proliferation of open source malware across their platform, giving no recourse for action, not applying their tremendous resources to the problem, fiddling as the open source community burns and leaving the devs to fend for themselves. Let's not mention the recent very hostile and trust-erodibg behavior towards bug bounty security researchers.

The *&$@ finally spread all the way up to the top of the hill in a compromise of Microsoft's own repos, which I think highlights the scale of the problem.

And in response, they offer a watery corporate platitude, "a few customers were affected in a recent incident, and we're looking into it."
mattfields
·tháng trước·discuss
This ^
mattfields
·2 năm trước·discuss
Speculative guess, but it sounds like intentional collusion/coercion between government and big corporations.

ie: Brazilian government demands Microsoft to grant them MITM access from Windows machines, in order for the right to do business in the country.
mattfields
·2 năm trước·discuss
This seems to fall under the category of "inflammatory political commentary", regardless of including both parties in it.

IMO seems borderline on flag-worthy.
mattfields
·2 năm trước·discuss
Price of four plane tickets for your family?

I don't know how much these rail tickets will cost, but I find the math on that to be unlikely.

4x plane tickets, assuming rock bottom minimum $60 a head to basically anywhere, $180-240...

Hmm
mattfields
·3 năm trước·discuss
This is, with no intended disespect, both absolutely false and dangerously blithely ignorant.

Unfortunately most of the population (including medical doctors) also has a similarly nonchalant conception of mold; that it's something that merely causes some allergies and sniffles for sensitive members of the population.

Toxic mold secretes _neurotoxins_ which will 100% destroy your life for years, if you get a bad enough exposure.

Read some of the experiences of mold survivors in this thread or elsewhere to get a sense of how bad this can be: it's horror-movie stuff.

Source: been through mold exposure myself. It wrecked my life for 5 years, and I still have lingering aftereffects.