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1. Ji Fu (fu@hostux.social)'s status on Tuesday, 30-May-2023 23:54:15 JST Ji Fu

   Microsoft can’t steal source code from private GitHub repositories, even if they wanted.

   This is similar to ‘moon hoax’: It is easier to actually go to the moon than faking it (nearly impossible) and keeping it a secret (impossible). https://www.quora.com/Can-Microsoft-steal-source-code-from-private-GitHub-repositories/answer/Baris-Saydag

   • Disinformation Purveyor :verified_think: (thatguyoverthere@shitposter.club)'s status on Tuesday, 30-May-2023 23:54:14 JST Disinformation Purveyor :verified_think:

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     @Fu > Microsoft-caliber developers
     
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   • Disinformation Purveyor :verified_think: (thatguyoverthere@shitposter.club)'s status on Tuesday, 30-May-2023 23:55:26 JST Disinformation Purveyor :verified_think:

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     @Fu > Microsoft has cutting-edge security teams and high standards of business conduct
     
     That's why they published the private keys for github right?
   • Disinformation Purveyor :verified_think: (thatguyoverthere@shitposter.club)'s status on Tuesday, 30-May-2023 23:59:35 JST Disinformation Purveyor :verified_think:

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     @Fu This guy drank the koolaide for sure. I don't know if they *will* steal code, but they certainly *could* at least steal ideas even if they couldn't just drop existing private projects right into their own work. And considering microsoft's roots it is definitely not beneath them.
   • Jeff Cliff (jeffcliff@shitposter.club)'s status on Wednesday, 31-May-2023 02:12:19 JST Jeff Cliff

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     stopped reading at
     
     > Microsoft is a principled company, that also wants to stay out of legal trouble and public backlash
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   • hyolobrika@berserker.town's status on Wednesday, 31-May-2023 02:18:29 JST Hyolobrika

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     @thatguyoverthere
     What I'm concerned about is this paragraph:
     >Funny thing is, Microsoft doesn’t need to spend $7B to buy GitHub to access others’ private information, including source code. Visual Studio, Office, Windows is used on literally hundreds of millions of enterprise and government computers. Like that’s not enough, world’s biggest enterprises and governments, including foreign governments, trust Microsoft with Azure, Microsoft’s cloud platform. So, Microsoft already has access to anything they can possibly want. Neither the corporation nor the people in it will ever betray that trust in a conspiracy like this.
     As users, we rely on the software (and hardware) we use being able to be audited for backdoors; even proprietary software (see https://seirdy.one/posts/2022/02/02/floss-security/ ).
     Is that not actually the case? Worrying if so.
     Maybe this guy is subtly letting slip that there is a backdoor in those pieces of software that no one has caught yet.
     @Fu

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