back to article Microsoft harnesses third-gen AMD Epyc processors for locked-down VMs

Microsoft is expanding its Azure confidential computing portfolio with virtual machines that use the encryption and memory protection features of AMD's third-gen Epyc processors. There is also Azure Confidential Ledger, a secure service for managing sensitive data records that runs on hardware-backed secure enclaves. The …

  1. amanfromMars 1 Silver badge

    On the Fast Track of/to a Major Kernel Crack Hack

    Would Microsoft boldly go so far as to say/tout/pimp/pump and dump those confidential VMs [Virtual Machines] as AWEsome Global Operating Devices ‽ .

    Clearly, with that direct question being asked of them here on El Reg, is it not just an alien view too.

    Do Microsoft understand/accept and realise that they can only provide for and support but never command and control such Virtual Machinery, although it could be quite rightly said that such aid in AIDevelopments supplies them such with a powerful facility and utility by remote proxy means?

    :-) Another possible, readily available option to divert attention and launch as a disastrous distraction, whenever easily proven false and untenable/increasingly unbelievable, is to express outrageous exasperation at such a preposterous notion and claim it to be a delusional observation rather than augmented virtual reality revelation, and/or alternatively try vainly to maintain a mainstream media/virtual radio silence on the matter as it further expands and exploits its reach and powerful influence in newly minted/freshly uncovered/recently discovered or recovered systemic core vulnerabilities/fundamental base operating protocols, all of which would then be deemed and realised as detrimental and not helpful, and even self-destructively suicidal in excelsis to Host Microsoft.

    1. amanfromMars 1 Silver badge

      Re: On the Fast Track of/to a Major Kernel Crack Hack

      And a little something more than just quite novel for quiet, Chatham House Rule discussion with interested Senior Service type partners enjoying the hospitality of 1, Horse Guards Avenue, London, methinks.

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