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#Shuttleworth kissing Bill Gates as.sterisk. What good is !GNU/ !Linux resiliency if it'll run on Windows #Azure #cloud? http://ur1.ca/9gq4x
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@metztli I'm not sure I get your point. how is Azure supporting non-Windows client OSes a bad thing?
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@metztli Azure will run any distro, and imho no harm is done by creating disk images that target it.
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Hummm... @wgreenhouse: "I'm not sure I get your point". Could it be because you did not read the second sentence of my comment?
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@metztli there are a lot of non-free VM solutions out there, e.g. VMware. I wouldn't say Azure is inherently less reliable than those.
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Tell me @wgreenhouse, do you think that #Microsoft was "unaware" of #Stuxnet #Duqu #Flame?…that it didn't collaborate with States involved?
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@metztli no, of course I wouldn't. Nor would I trust other non-free VM hypervisors such as VMware.
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@metztli ...yes, I do, based on a decades-long legacy of ineptitude in catching and patching vulns. incompetence>malice in this case.
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@metztli yes, I do. no point in mentioning such plans to microsoft when .us/.il/whoever could easily buy vulns on the open market w/o MS.
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@metztli a result of MS's closed security model is that there are companies such as VUPEN specializing in unreleased Windows 0days.
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@metztli ...sold only to "friendly" (NATO) governments. informing MS about these before use would be unnecessary and counterproductive.
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@metztli to reiterate, of course Azure+Ubuntu is less reliable than Ubuntu running in a FOSS VM, but it's also better than Azure+Windows.
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@metztli it was undetected by the software security industry too; I think there was much complacency about a MITM against Windows Update.
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@metztli I don't disagree. there's just no plausible evidence for the collaboration theory, at all.
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@metztli kaspersky report also indicated it wasn't anything like the whole Middle East, but about a hundred selected boxes at a time.
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Problem is #Flame erases its tracks, making it difficult for 3rd parties to realize extent of infection —initial rumor was whole Middle East
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@metztli right. more recent hypothesis is that there was a fairly constant small number of hosts, adding new ones as others were deleted.
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@metztli no question that MS and US share an interest in MS having profitable exports. but that interest is hurt by every botnet scandal.
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