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Oh wonderful. Replacing all IT because they were hacked? Let me guess, they will use Windows, Exchange, and MS Office again on the new system. The software triumvirate screaming "please hack me".
๐คฃ should we get a list of foss projects that have had security issues? Or how about how someone slips some shit in upstream every few weeks it seems?
Stop this nonsense. You can hate Microsoft for legitimate reasons.
Mate have a look at the SharePoint vulnerability. It's embarrassingly bad. Like really really bad, and btw so bad that it's very easy to understand and exploit. And prevent too, if a jr in my team did this I'd get them in trouble.
No no, you don't get it.
Random Windows 'Powerusers' obviously know more about programming and cybersecurity than people who actually do that for a living, as a professional line of work, duh!
See, I wrote a bash file once, so I basically know everything about software dev, especially on linux as well, which is basically just the whole OS is powershell, right?
/s/s/s