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Wait until an internal leak reveals how this was a self-backdoored/malware vulnerability.
I will probably get down voted for this comment (because conspiracy?) but in a few years we will see a lot a pikachu faced memes about it. Can't wait to laugh my ass off.
There's no reason to self-backdoor the authentication mechanism if you already have access to the account's data. Also it sounds like you are very smart.
Uhhhg... Why so offensive? I'm just saying that if you trust a multi billion dollar company, your trust is in the wrong place.
If you are privacy conscious and have to deal with Microsoft's services because your workplace doesn't know better... I feel sorry for you.
That's a totally different point though, on which I agree.
It's related though. If you have enough money, the means and interest, nothing is impossible. Specially if you are a big player/monopoly in IT.
Yes I don't have any degree in cryptography, AI, or any related stuff in security and mathematics, however I read a lot, tinker a lot and work hard to maintain my homelab and self-hosted services. I'm not intelligent by any mean but I'm not stupid either, critical thinking is a very important aspect but I digress.
To give you another example, to better understand my comment on why I'm thinking like this, are some of the NIST curves in cryptography to sign SSL certificates which do not contain any backdoor by itself but have known weaknesses which allowed the NSA to snoop on communication for years... Intentionally or not that's you to decided with your personal believes. And that's not something I read on reddit or first search engine result but mostly research papers or people in the education sector writing trusted paper. And thankfully zlibrary exist or I woulsn't be able to access those resources.
I surely oversimplified everything here, with my limited knowledge, but that doesn't take away (IMO) that we shouldn't trust any big player in the IT infrastructure overall.
PS: And yes Microsoft probably doesn't need to implemented such measure, cauz' people are anyway giving those info away for free... You're right on this point :).
That's a lot of words to simply admit you were wrong.
How so? From my perspective I'm just saying that yes Microsoft probably doesn't need to implemement such measure, however does that mean that they don't?
But that's always a take people won't argue on because... It's Microsoft, why would they do that? But why not?
That's people hiding behind the benefit of the doubt giving Microsoft a positive opinion given in the absence of full evidence.
Happy holidays.