Crims found and exploited these two Microsoft bugs before Redmond fixed 'em Microsoft fixed 73 security holes in this February's Patch Tuesday, and you better get moving because two of the vulnerabilities are under active attack. Of the whole bundle five are rated critical and two others, rated important and moderate threats, are the pair being exploited in the wild. First up: CVE-2024-21412, an …
So they are effectively a "feature" for Microsoft and other bug-involved companies ... all users must upgrade and that allows a user data transfer to the corporations. So if a completely bug-free app is created then it has the potential to reduce each corporate income. Looking at the past it's clear that originally when a bug was found it was only "fixed" ... back then there was very little hacking and infection deliveries related to "bugs" ... so companies like Microsoft were only working to create working software. Corporate income was moderate in the old days (how much money did Gary Kildall make from CP/M?).
Once hacking appeared, and advertising generated the transfer of user data for sale, then corporate income started to get higher. The current computing environment is a bit like "farming" ... we "users" are all "cows and pigs" these days and everyone is eating bacon for breakfast and steaks and ice cream for lunch.
I’m done with Microsoft “updates.” I only run Windows in an instance of virt-manager and no access to the internet, period.
If my Microsoft work needs data from/to the internet, I’ll port it from my Ubuntu host OS. I actually don’t care if Microsoft goes broke, they have nothing to offer me anymore.
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