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You mean the company that failed their 2023 security review? [0]

> Individually, any one of the failings described above might be understandable. Taken together, they point to a failure of Microsoft’s organizational controls and governance, and of its corporate culture around security.

Microsoft’s products and services are ubiquitous. It is one of the most important technology companies in the world, if not the most important. This position brings with it utmost and global responsibilities. It requires a security-focused corporate culture of accountability, which starts with the CEO, to ensure that financial or other go-to-market factors do not undermine cybersecurity and the protection of Microsoft’s customers.

> Unfortunately, throughout this review, the Board identified a series of operational and strategic decisions that collectively point to a corporate culture in Microsoft that deprioritized both enterprise security investments and rigorous risk management. These decisions resulted in significant costs and harm for Microsoft customers around the world.

> The Board is convinced that Microsoft should address its security culture.

[0] https://www.cisa.gov/resources-tools/resources/CSRB-Review-S...

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Guess that's what lead to the Secure Future Initiative[1], given it was launched late 2023[2]...

[1]: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/trust-center/security/secure...

[2]: https://cybermagazine.com/articles/how-microsoft-is-securing...

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Bonkers that this wasn’t bigger news
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The root of trust in Secure Boot is typically an OEM certificate, not Microsoft's, which is probably even worse: https://www.binarly.io/blog/pkfail-untrusted-platform-keys-u...

In any case, you're free to remove Microsoft's certificates and enroll your own.

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More like "forced to accept" rather than "trust".

This latest event just continues Microsoft's track record of being a security problem rather than having their shit together. :(

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No one should be foolish enough to trust Microsoft with anything regarding security. They showed time and time again over the past 40 years that they don't care.
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Have you bought a PC in the last 10 years? Then it came with Microsoft's secure boot keys on it. Sometimes it's not even possible to remove or disable them. Sometimes you actually need a Microsoft-signed bootloader shim to boot anything that isn't Microsoft.
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I haven't bought a Windows PC in the last 10 years, yes. I think the last Windows PC I bought was a used ThinkPad from 2011 that I upgraded and used until 2022.
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What do you mean 'we'? :-)
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