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    ” Included secrets, private keys, passwords, 30,000+ internal Teams messages.”

    “A Microsoft employee accidentally exposed 38 terabytes of private data while publishing a bucket of open-source AI training data on GitHub, according to Wiz security researchers who spotted the leaky account and reported it to the Windows giant.

    “And Redmond, in a Monday write-up, downplayed the blunder, and said it was merely “sharing the learnings” to help customers avoid making similar mistakes. This is despite Wiz claiming the leaky data bucket had private keys, passwords, and over 30,000 internal Microsoft Teams messages, as well as backup data from two employees’ workstations.”

    https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/18/more_microsoft_token_trouble/

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    “Everything is fine.” Yup.  Just fine.

    38 TB.

    You can’t make this kind of stuff up.

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      To me, it doesn’t matter if it was 38TB or if it was 38 bits, they need to fix the leak AND heads should roll. There is NO EXCUSE for that to happen. But knowing Redmond, NOTHING will happen.

      I shudder th think how things will go when AI kicks in full force.

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        Well, maybe it will be an improvement; surely there are few signs of biological intelligence there at present…much too expensive to hire and keep fed, healthy and housed.

        But I get the point. “Redmond?+AI? Ai yi yi yi yi!”

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