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> 3) this behavior on the part of American tech would undermine their credibility globally. Wouldn't you reasonably be very skeptical of Microsoft if you were a
by magduf 8y ago
> 3) this behavior on the part of American tech would undermine their credibility globally. Wouldn't you reasonably be very skeptical of Microsoft if you were a foreign government if you knew they were actively working with the American government to pwn you?
The fact that foreign governments aren't more skeptical of Microsoft really baffles me. The American government isn't dumb enough to buy security products from Kapersky after all, or devices from Huawei.
- espeed 8y agoMaybe that was part of the motivation for Microsoft moving toward open-source. Showing their cards in a way that can be audited and verified to ease any potential foreign organization's concerns. Software is part of it, but hardware is the harder sell.
- chopin 8y agoAfaik that's only for cloud. There the software runs on an opaque virtualization layer. Windows is still closed source. Therefore there is a lot of speculation around the phone home capabilities.