And it simply does not have strong enough security.
Well there it finally is.
The perfect reason for yelling at the cloud.
Posted on 08/03/2025 5:31:01 PM PDT by texas booster
Chinese engineers accessed Pentagon systems via Microsoft’s cloud—raising alarms over Big Tech’s ties to America’s top adversary.
“When it comes time to hang the capitalists, they will vie with each other for the rope contract.” While the statement has been variously (and erroneously) attributed to Lenin, Stalin, and Marx, the point remains as true today as it was yesterday and will be tomorrow—if there is a tomorrow for free people and free markets.
In the wake of a disturbing ProPublica investigation, Microsoft executives and the United States Department of Defense (DOD) bureaucrats are busy trying to cover their butts and close the barn door on potential Chinese espionage by fixing the digital escort program. As CNBC reports, “Microsoft on Friday revised its practices to ensure that engineers in China no longer provide technical support to U.S. defense clients using the company’s cloud services.”
While it is too early to determine whether communist China has penetrated the DOD’s classified information stored in its cloud, it is high time to ask, “How in the world did this happen?”
Sure, it is a rhetorical question, but it is helpful to review yet again how the cozy confluence of American multinational corporatists, bureaucrats, and Chinese communists triangulates to imperil our national security.
(Excerpt) Read more at amgreatness.com ...
The ProPublica report revealed that Chinese-based Microsoft engineers had been helping maintain Defense Department computer systems, potentially exposing sensitive military data to cybersecurity risks. The report revealed that Microsoft’s Chinese Azure engineers were overseen by “digital escorts” in the U.S., who typically had less technical expertise than the employees they managed overseas.
Specifically, again per Breitbart:
A China-based Microsoft engineer submits a digital “ticket” to perform maintenance. A U.S.-based escort picks up the ticket. The two meet virtually, where the engineer relays commands for the escort to input into the federal cloud system, without the escort necessarily understanding the code. This provides an opening to potentially insert malicious code that goes undetected.
Allowing the people of communist China, where laws mandate that people of all walks of life—including tech— collude in its cyber espionage or else, access to our DOD systems sounds insane. And it is. But there is a cold, hard illogic at work: money. ...
M$ Cloud is where M$ is directing everyone.
And it simply does not have strong enough security.
But the way M$ drove through the procurement ranks to sell its standard class Azure services was shameless.
Let’s hope that Pete Hegseth kills off this contract for cause.
Yes we are in fact, f••ked. Welcome to the cloud.
Any one that lets their sensitive information go outside of their personal control is an idiot. Whether it’s a cloud, letting something like Gramerly or an AI service edit your documents, putting your home security camera pictures internet accessable or whatever. The same applies to letting Google manage your passwords.
There is no such thing as digital security. For those that think there is, then why are clouds, government agencies and corporations constantly getting hacked? This thread is a perfect example.
Would they be the same people who believed that the Covid could kill them and that they needed to take an untested vaccine, in order to live? That kind of idiots?
Author is Thad McCotter, he was once my congressman many years ago, funny guy and good to hear from him.
“Chinese-based Microsoft engineers had been helping maintain Defense Department computer systems,...”
There are just no words.
NY governor Cuomo scored huge number of covid deaths in nursing homes.
There is no such thing as digital security. For those that think there is, then why are clouds, government agencies and corporations constantly getting hacked? This thread is a perfect example.
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So, how would this relate to your crypto wallet?
Well there it finally is.
The perfect reason for yelling at the cloud.
the Feds should NEVER store any data in a “cloud” unless it’s a cloud built and operated exclusively for the Feds only by USA subcontractors and built on USA soil ... and not a “virtual” cloud carved out of a commercial “cloud” either ... period ...
FTA: Chinese-based Microsoft engineers had been helping maintain Defense Department computer systems, potentially exposing sensitive military data to cybersecurity risks.
The commies were seeing all the secreets from day 1
Can we have the ceo and the board of directors shot?
At least jailed!!
This would be like giving the Germans access to our secrets in WW2.
I don’t and wouldn’t use a cloud for anything. It’s nothing more than a huge chunk of bait for hackers to get to.
Anything related to defense should be completely independent of and incapable of any outside interference.
Especially if you’re calling over to China for support.
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