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> The senator went on to pin blame on Microsoft for the recent mass breach of the Departments of State and Commerce and the other Azure customers. Specific fail
by Eisenstein 3y ago
> The senator went on to pin blame on Microsoft for the recent mass breach of the Departments of State and Commerce and the other Azure customers. Specific failings, Wyden said, included Microsoft having “a single skeleton key that, when inevitably stolen, could be used to forge access to different customers’ private communications.”
> "Microsoft’s engineers should never have deployed systems that violated such basic cybersecurity principles"
I hope someone quotes this line back when they inevitably introduce a 'we want a backdoor to encryption' legislation.
- philsnow 3y agoWhat does "forge access" even mean? I would have said "gain access". Although, even worse, the private key could likely have been used to actually forge communications from those parties.