Re: Defense in depth -- the Microsoft way (part 83): instead to fix even their most stupid mistaskes, they spill barrels of snakeoil to cover them (or just leave them as-is)

Arik Seils <[email protected]> Fri, 17 Mar 2023 08:18:03 +0100 (GMT+01:00)
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