Everything you put on a Microsoft service will be accessible by American spies.
Thank you for using the word SPIES. Call em what they are. I haven’t heard that word in a long time.
That’s how all mega corps operate and always has been this way.
Thank you for this link.
Since our previous - competent - IT engineer retired last year and my company hired a young, utterly incompetent MCSE monkey, the company has been more and more falling into the Microsoft cloud trap, what with Office 365, Teams, Sharepoint, and more and more pointless Windows servers to replace our perfectly working but no longer administered Linux machines. It’s so bad that this Microsoft jockey caused 25 working machines to be landfilled because they can’t be updated to Windows 11.
And so since this guy was hired, I’ve been sending choice links to our CEO, who is NOT an idiot and listens to common sense, to convince him that entangling the company with Microsoft is a very bad stragegy, both in terms of finances and data soveignty.
The argument that Microsoft was an untrustworthy data-hungry company didn’t quite land with him. The fact that it now operates in a fascist country certainly had more of an effect on him. I’m hoping your link will turn more gears in his head…
Have you shared the CSRB report from 2023 with him already?
It identified a series of operational and strategic decisions by Microsoft that “collectively point to a corporate culture that deprioritized both enterprise security investments and rigorous risk management.” The report pulls no punches in its assessment, declaring that “the cascade of Microsoft’s avoidable errors that allowed this intrusion to succeed” was both preventable and unacceptable.
