So fucking what? He is not being paid in any kind, and anything he does on that project is volunteer work. If he was not able to do anything on that project due to regular work, vacation, personal issues, or the simple fact that he didn’t want to?
If you don’t pay for a service, you don’t get to decide what people do, deal with it
Honestly, apart from the report being potentially wrong, the researcher seems pretty entitled as well. Like good intentions and all that, but he’s given him a week to fix the issue, usual practice in responsible disclosure are 90 days. We’re not talking about a company here, it’s some single random dude providing the app.
This really sounds like some personal issue written down for public drama, while making himself ridiculous for not knowing his own shit properly.
Unless there are those who need certain words for their jobs, I can kinda understand why Microsoft wouldn’t want emails from work addresses to go out with political agendas… for either side.
Sure. Then block both sides, and not only the one not bringing you money.
Work emails should just be about work. Too many people use their work emails like a personal email… with their banking, shopping, etc. That’s what personal email addresses are for.
No one uses their company email for their personal banking, simply for the reason because if you’d leave, you’d lose your access, and since most companies run behind firewalls, vpns, 2fa tokens and similar additional credentials, it’s simply harder to use.
This policy should go for many non-work related topics too. IT can unblock the words for certain users who need to use them for their job.
Of course, let’s waste resources to maintain idiotic blocklists that are out of date the moment they are rolled out, and additional resources to make the blocklist actually work. Palestine, p4lestine, pale s tine, p a l e s t i n e, paleztine. Need more?
You’re not at work for someone with this kind of unhinged mentality watching you working for 8 hours a day straight with no breaks and no distractions. You’re there to get your work done. In my current team, we’ve had the best ideas talking about our problems at the coffee machine. I personally focus best when I have music on. We’re doing sports together once a week on a company fitness incentive, which boosted our team dynamic massively. None of this would be possible in such a controlled environment.
Quality journalism:
Yesterday, we reported on actors using Russian IP addresses to breach the National Labor Relations Board immediately after DOGE engineers obtained “God-tier” access. According to whistleblower Daniel Berulis the intruders used newly created DOGE credentials and techniques “consistent with sophisticated Russian intelligence operations.”
Shocking, if inexperienced, young idiots get to do whatever they want in critical systems, shits gonna hit the fan.
Any IT system DOGE touched should be considered compromised, not because of “sophisticated” state agents, but because you’ve had those idiots touching it.
Remember the first days of post-Musk twitter? Yeah, now imagine that with older, more brittle systems, way less experience in the staff, more AI slop, less time and way more god complex.
Also, still waiting for the day those “journalists” will learn that an IPs geolocation does not have to be the actual source…
How is this more repairable than any other cable? Their repair instructions are literally “get a bunch of tools, cut that thing open, resolder and reseal”. Is their “repairable” aspect that they are only using shrink tubing on the outside of the plugs saving money on material too? Yeah, I bet I’ll need to repair those a lot.
Also, those are some fucking expensive cables.
You probably just should let an AI generate that.
Yes, if the app would be any kind of official tool.
Yes, and that’s why regulations for those kinds of things exist, that prevent those things. There is no regulation for the ice tracker.
If down the road a regulation would happen for, app developer dude would be forced to either comply or to stop operations.