• flan [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    10 months ago

    Is Microsoft trying to win some huge government contract? I don’t understand why they would put their neck out there like this. I imagine China is a big market for them.

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      10 months ago

      How would Microsoft even know this? They make software, they’re not a counter espionage group. It’s just some poor appeal to authority or something.

      • GaveUp [she/her]@hexbear.net
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        10 months ago

        Microsoft definitely has a large enough employee base of security dweebs to put together a team to do stuff like this for a government contract

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          10 months ago

          If it’s for a government contract then they wouldn’t say “Microsoft Says”. It would just be, “We have evidence…”. This easy they get to keep their distance from the claim.