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We know people hate passwords…30% of people said they just have stopped using an account or service they were trying to log into… Imagine the shopping carts, memberships or accounts that have been abandoned because of password issues…

–Vasu Jakkal, Microsoft’s corporate vice president of security, compliance and identity

Sad to see Microsoft get away with offering up a security person to distort the real message that this change is not about security at all but rather about the scourge of financial depts everywhere that is the abandoned shopping cart. WaPo should have interviewed someone from MSFT’s finance dept to get the actual thinking behind this change. In failing to do so they insult their readers.

For those who want to host a no-frills git instance there’s this 2013 blog post from DigitalOcean, LLC that I sometimes reference whenever I forget the steps.

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Sole comment (at the time of this writing) at bottom of page === priceless

For those keeping score at home…

We’re still at 0 people held accountable.

But don’t worry there’s still time for this number to go down. Since its still fresh news we don’t know what, if any, bonus/golden parachute he got as a reward for fostering a (sic) abusive workplace.

Do systems like VPN Gate represent a practical workaround to this form of discrimination?

Welcome to VPN Gate. (Launched on March 8, 2013.)

• You can get through your government’s firewall to browse restricted websites. (e.g. YouTube.)
• You can disguise your IP address to hide your identity while surfing the Internet.
• You can protect yourself by utilizing the strong encryption while using public Wi-Fi

Edit: adding quote from white paper, for clarity:

To achieve such resistance, we organize many volunteers to provide a VPN relay service, with many changing IP addresses. To block VPN Gate with their firewalls, censorship author-ities must find the IP addresses of all the volunteers. To prevent this, we adopted two techniques to improve blocking resistance.