That’s what happens if you let business idiots run everything
Management is the weakest link in any organisation.
All they have to do is just listen to the smart people on their team and collect a big paycheque, take credit when work goes well and blame the staff when work goes bad.
If they try to use their own ideas to run the business, this is what happens.
In my experience Software Engineers working in ML are, for the most part, also drinking their own Cool Aid, and need pushback from the rest of the company to keep them in check. So management also needs to know which smart people to listen to.
The best management is the one that also gets their hands dirty.
Yeah, they just pissed off the only area that can literally sink them tomorrow…no shit they actually care now.
Security. Yeah that’s what users complained about… :P
They don’t trust Microsoft but I guess that’s harder to put on their web page.
“dedicating the equivalent of 34,000 full-time engineers to what has become the single largest cybersecurity engineering project in the history of digital technology,”
What does this mean? Are they having it done by 50,000 part timers? Or are they just asking bing chat to churn out security solutions for them?
In some cases, this will mean prioritizing security above other things we do, such as releasing new features or providing ongoing support for legacy systems.
Hopefully this doesn’t go the Apple direction where “security” becomes the catch-all defence for anti-consumer business practices.
In some cases, this will mean prioritizing security
Sounds like the old Microsoft attitudes are alive and well.
m$ just got away with another slap on the wrist. Being lax and purely driven by money is rewarded in the land of pseudo a capitalism.
Soo… what does this mean for the Windows Recall feature?
It’s been recalled
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Instead, Microsoft feared it might lose its government contract by warning about the bug and allegedly downplayed the problem, choosing profits over security, ProPublica reported.
This apparent negligence led to one of the largest cyberattacks in US history, and officials’ sensitive data was compromised due to Microsoft’s security failures.
Even Microsoft itself was breached, with a Russian group accessing senior staff emails this year, including their “correspondence with government officials,” Reuters reported.
Smith described the SFI as “a multiyear endeavor” focusing all of Microsoft’s efforts developing products and services “on achieving the highest possible standards for security.”
He warned that online threats are always evolving but said that Microsoft was committed to grounding projects in core cybersecurity tenets that would prioritize security in product designs and ensure that protections are never optional and always enabled by default.
In 2021, Smith told Congress that “there was no vulnerability in any Microsoft product or service that was exploited” in that cyberattack, while arguing that “customers could have done more to protect themselves,” ProPublica reported.
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