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01232018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025

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20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC312
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
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ntqvm·Jan 2, 2025
The author seems misinformed about the purpose of TPM to DRM schemes. The purpose of a TPM, in this case, is not to provide encryption, but instead to provide so-called ‘authenticity’. A TPM with its attestation capabilities can allow a remote validator to attest the operating system and system software you are running via the PCRs which are configured based on it, with Secure Boot preventing tampering. [1] Google tried to implement APIs to plug this into the Chrome browser, which was later abandoned after backlash. [2] In this case, the TPM can allow services like Netflix or Hulu to validate the hardware and software you are currently running, which provides the base for a hardware DRM implementation as stated in the article. Don’t be surprised if your non-standard OS isn’t allowed to play back content due to its remote validation failin
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g if this is implemented. TPMs also have a unique, cryptographically verifiable identifier that is burnt into the chip and can be read from software. This allows for essentially a unique ID for each computer that is not able to be forged, as it is signed by the TPM manufacturer (in most cases Intel/AMD as TPMs on consumer hardware are usually emulated on the CPUs TEE). If you were around for the Pentium III serial controversy, this is a very similar issue. It's already used as the primary method of banning users on certain online video games, but I wouldn’t be surprised to see it expand to services requiring it to prove you aren’t a “bot” or similar if it gets wider adoption. There is a great article going more into detail about the implications of TPM to privacy from several years ago, which was the basis for this reply. [3] [1]: https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/azure-docs/blob/main/articl... [2]: https://github.com/explainers-by-googlers/Web-Environment-In... [3]: https://secret.club/2021/06/28/windows11-tpms.html
In The GPU, not the TPM, is the root of hardware DRM
espadrine·Mar 24, 2024
> 4chan basically found an “echo” type debug command or something like that That is certainly what Microsoft wanted people to think[0]: > a coordinated attack by a subset of people exploited a vulnerability in Tay. Realistically, though, Tay’s website was open about using tweets directed at it as part of its training set[1]: > Data and conversations you provide to Tay are anonymized and may be retained for up to one year to help improve the service. So all that this group did was tweet racist things at it, and it ended up in its training set. Microsoft hints at it in the earlier blog post: > AI systems feed off of both positive and negative interactions with people. In that sense, the challenges are just as much social as they are technical. There are technical solutions for this issue however; for instance, when creating ChatGPT, the Ope
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nAI team designed ChatML[2] to distinguish assistant messages from user messages, so that it would send messages in the style of the assistant only, not in the style of the user. Along with RLHF, it allowed OpenAI to use ChatGPT messages as part of their training set. [0]: https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2016/03/25/learning-tays-in... [1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20160323194709/https://tay.ai/ [2]: https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/azure-docs/blob/main/articl...
In How ML Model Data Poisoning Works in 5 Minutes
0xcrypto·Oct 23, 2023
You are right that redirect_uri must match the exact registered redirect_uri. But some providers allow query parameters. For Microsoft, it was possible in 2020 when I reported the vulnerability. In 2022, they restricted query parameter support to only applications that is built for Work and School accounts and in August 2022, they added a section for this in the documentation. See: - Commit: https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/azure-docs/commit/c249a0548... - Current Documentation: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/dev...
In Stealing OAuth tokens of Microsoft accounts via open redirect in Harvest App
NoNameProvided·Sep 23, 2021
We use Azure at work and this article hit home hard. As we just have been burned recently by Azure pricing. I am in the same spot as the author: liking Azure but being put off by all the weird stuff sometimes they are doing. In our case, all we wanted was a static IP in front of an Azure Container Instance. Easy right? Let's put the container in a vNET, place a NAT Gateway in front of it and we are done. However, for some reason NAT Gateway is not supported for Container instances, instead, the official documentation suggests setting up an Azure managed firewall in front of your container that starts at a whopping 600EUR/month. That is a steep price increase from your ~30ish EUR/month for a basic container instance and it doesn't seem to be any other official alternative. I have opened an issue with the docs team [1] about it and I hope t
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here is another way of doing this that doesn't incur a doubling of our Azure monthly spending. [1]: https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/azure-docs/issues/81274
In It's tough being an Azure fan
chupa-chups·Dec 17, 2019
https://mspoweruser.com/microsoft-is-discontinuing-the-germa... https://hackernoon.com/microsoft-announces-the-end-of-the-ge... https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/azure-docs/issues/14944 If you still don't believe me, please provide your public key or email address so I can publish a response. Maybe it doesn't stand out: Microsoft Germany delivered the promise that US authorities are technically unable to access stored data. The "new" data centers were without that promise, making the USP obsolete.
In Google Brass Set 2023 as Deadline to Beat Amazon, Microsoft in Cloud

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