
ah well, I guess with software encryption, Microsoft will have no problems giving the US spy agencies (NSA/FBI etc) access via their "master key" to all the data on your HDD.
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> they are doing that because it turned out that the disks that were claiming to be encrypting the data weren't doing that, at all
Yea, it's uncanny, flaws like setting the master password to zero length and burying this in some obscure setting. Makes one wonder if the manufacturers had help from the NSA?
"Tested the link - it redirected to a fake Office 365 login page hosted at Windows.net. Holy shit. I tested the URI string from Adobe, and sure enough you can put anything after "&p1=" and adobe will redirect you."The admin noted the matter was reported to Microsoft and the scammer's account was deleted.
Why on all earth wasn't the Adobe redirect fixed too?
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/adobe-and-google-open-redirects-abused-by-phishing-campaigns/
The ultimate URL does appear at the end of the string, albeit not necessarily including http:// or www, but I suppose it could be obfuscated.
What is the advantage to Google, Adobe etc of these redirects?