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All Things Microsoft => Microsoft as a Company => Topic started by: bedouin on 6 September 2011, 14:42

Title: Wikileaks: Microsoft aided former Tunisian regime
Post by: bedouin on 6 September 2011, 14:42

http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/security/2011/09/05/wikileaks-microsoft-aided-former-tunisian-regime-40093837/?s_cid=938&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Title: Re: Wikileaks: Microsoft aided former Tunisian regime
Post by: reactosguy on 8 September 2011, 06:19

A nation like Tunisia would benefit from free software.

Title: Re: Wikileaks: Microsoft aided former Tunisian regime
Post by: davidnix71 on 10 September 2011, 02:48

The newer versions of Ubuntu don't have the password resets they used to. I almost lost 2 VM's in Ubuntu I use occasionally because I momentarily forgot the login password. There used to be reset mechanisms available but those are gone from the latest versions.

Diginotar has been hacked by an Iranian (probably gov't official). Can't trust anyone these days.