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- Fri, 12:10: Lenovo's Superfish blunder makes it harder for you to love Windows http://t.co/qqVwsgxxwI #zdnet
- Fri, 12:47: Macs got superfish in 2012 with some browser extensions, not clear if it did the same cert badness h/t @scott_humble https://t.co/1HdlubJItH
- Fri, 12:52: There is a broken link for my ZDNet piece explaining the bind OEMs put Microsoft in; the story is here http://t.co/S8xE8yDDFV
- Fri, 12:59: Another day, another bitcoin exchange ceases trading. Never mind, two more will have started up #buncobooths
- Fri, 13:06: Machine learning in dynamics CRM demoed http://t.co/JbBbltIxXA
- Fri, 13:08: RT @sbisson: The reason why the rest of the EU isn't cracking down on the GCHQ hacks is simple: their intelligence services are just as dir…
- Fri, 13:08: RT @sbisson: Take the DGSE for example, it's possibly the foremost aviation technology industrial espionage organisation.
- Fri, 13:09: RT @msdevUK: Heard you guys like #SurfacePro3? We're running a promo where you can save up to £250: http://t.co/iuQFmLizxW http://t.co/CT9J…
- Fri, 13:14: RT @NSA_PR: No, no, no, no, no, let's go back to the Lenovo thing. Ignore the Sim card story. Bad Lenovo! Bad!
- Fri, 13:15: RT @markwilsonit: Self service password resets and branded logins coming to #Office365: http://t.co/4lm0WdfMbF (previously needed Azure AD …
- Fri, 13:18: RT @AmyKateNicho: Check out the experiments I have added to the Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Gallery: https://t.co/AP1uCeKOhc #AzureML …
- Fri, 13:18: RT @kurtsh: ApplePay/Softcard use phone SIM secure element to store payment tokens for credit cards. Google Wallet stores 'em on Google's s…
- Fri, 13:23: RT @gkjohn: Cholesterol in the Diet: The Long Slide from Public Menace to No “Appreciable” Effect http://t.co/NmWggs4ju5
- Fri, 13:28: RT @mikedao: @DaveVoyles http://t.co/TvDS04RyCO
- Fri, 13:28: RT @shaver: If you think using Linux instead of Windows would have prevented #SuperFish, you're adorable and I want to pinch your cheeks.
- Fri, 13:30: RT @IanET: Traded a Pixel for a Surface. Just can't resist a high density touch screen :)
- Fri, 13:31: RT @h0x0d: "Project Blush explorers the materiality of digital ephemera and people's receptiveness to 'digital jewellery" http://t.co/QGcQW…
- Fri, 13:33: RT @josefajardo: ... very excited ... :) go Xbox & HoloLens !! http://t.co/mlp27J75s3
- Fri, 13:34: RT @jchchm: Happy 25th, #photoshop. Just ran into co-author John Knoll. Had the original program in his pocket @ComputerHistory http://t.co…
- Fri, 13:39: RT @kunikos: Patterns for using Microsoft Orleans cloud compute actor framework: https://t.co/xBZwT4MPiS cool stuff here, to understand som…
- Fri, 13:40: RT @BrandonLive: This whole #superfish thing has me wondering... what *better* secondary/indirect revenue models are going unexplored by PC…
- Fri, 13:41: RT @cpragman: Scary. #komodia offers volume discounts for SSL injection when affecting more than 1 million machines/month. http://t.co/dSb…
- Fri, 13:41: RT @mattpodwysocki: Mixing two of my favorite things, Lego and probability theory. Bayes Theorem demonstrated in Lego! http://t.co/cZEJNsvr…
- Fri, 13:48: Lenovo finally gives real removal instructions. They still don't cover Firefox
- Fri, 13:51: RT @ericlaw: Komodia woke up & took down "buy our kit to hack ads into browsers" page. Get your copy for the lawsuit: https://t.co/3NRik2bw…
- Fri, 15:44: RT @reckel: Kudos to @zephoria @MSFTResearch for her involvement in @Dove #SpeakBeautiful campaign. You rock, danah http://t.co/JzF4USJ0eg
- Fri, 15:47: RT @nancybaym: Tell me again how it's "just the algorithms" like algorithms aren't forces that emerge from and influence world understandin…
- Fri, 15:48: RT @nancybaym: My father posts an article to FB on why global warming causes huge snows. FB recommends 'related articles' all denying clima…
- Fri, 15:48: RT @shorinsean: Ever wonder which #AzureAD #SaaS apps in the app gallery support identity federation? Wonder no more: http://t.co/52JyaAZ5ID
- Fri, 15:50: RT @RyanLowdermilk: Microsoft Makes Apache Storm Generally Available And Improves Productivity for Real-Time Analytics on Big Data #az… htt…
- Fri, 15:51: RT @sbisson: A while back someone at MS tweeted that using Git made it easier to get code from other divs. Anyone remember who it was?
- Fri, 15:55: RT @BitterSweetPod: Interviewed a little girl this morning that feeds crows and they bring her gifts in return. Here's her collection. http…
- Fri, 15:56: RT @genetics_blog: In defense of Fahrenheit http://t.co/qwDcBm0XVr
- Fri, 16:02: RT @BigMeanInternet: Also I did not know you're allowed to use disclaimers like this! I've been trying way too hard. http://t.co/2W69IkKqXh
- Fri, 16:04: RT @shanelandry: Yesterday a small team of #Cortana UX designers reviewed new and refined designs for some experiences that got folks genui…
- Fri, 16:05: RT @AxCy2k: [Solution Architect] Power BI and Dynamics AX: Part 2: Extract and Transform #MsDynAX http://t.co/eUqrMcCy4D
- Fri, 18:42: I'd say @jsirosh just delivered more innuendoes than I've ever heard in a machine learning keynote;artificial insemination in monitored cows
- Fri, 18:55: RT @FiloSottile: GO MICROSOFT http://t.co/81gs9PkDKx
- Fri, 20:04: RT @DanB: My 1979 pre-VisiCalc paper. Wrote: Can't say an electronic spreadsheet: "Not everybody knows what a spreadsheet is" http://t.co/H…
- Fri, 20:07: Don't think Superfish happened because of Chinese ownership but how did no-one in L US think about the blowback when gov finds out about it?
- Fri, 20:32: RT @schnoll: Extended email retention for deleted items in Office 365 - http://t.co/WHAQXAPRlw #Office365 #MRM #ExchangeOnline #MSExchange
- Fri, 20:41: RT @shanselman: WAIT. So Chrome needs 30 megs of memory in an extension to constantly listen for me MAYBE someday saying "OK Google?" http:…
- Fri, 20:43: Technically, yes, it's not the Superfish software that presents a security risk; it's the cert that comes with it
- Fri, 20:55: RT @BenThePCGuy: @edbott Think you mean iScalade.
- Fri, 20:56: Ok security folk. Who else licenced Komodia &put it into adware (or anything else) that gets preloaded? Surely not just Superfish/Lenovo
- Fri, 21:01: RT @Anelf3: @edbott Oh my god maybe they're recreating Steve's old VW hippie bus that he sold to fund the Apple IT WAS RIGHT IN FRONT OF US…
- Fri, 21:02: RT @shaver: Lenovo CTO: "engineers on my team are embarrassed. they missed this." That is some world-class leadership.
- Fri, 21:08: After years of underpaying Wal-Mart realises happy staff are worth paying for. Could the new WM CEO please give the PC OEMs some coaching
- Fri, 22:57: RT @getwired: People seem surprised that horribly designed code with giant security holes ships. Why do you think I say the IoT is such a …
- Fri, 23:03: It gets worse! tl;dr The Komodia/Superfish proxy can be made to allow self-signed certificates without warnings http://t.co/byc16gfiTi
- Fri, 23:05: Lots of good info from @FiloSottile today who spotted defender update and now the SSL mess
- Fri, 23:05: RT @FiloSottile: For reporters: all my screenshots/tweets/guides made this week are fair play. Use, modify, embed them freely. (And attribu…
- Fri, 23:08: RT @IostinheII: Fifty shades of grey is romantic only because the guy is a billionaire. If he was living in a trailer it would be a Crimina…
- Fri, 23:09: RT @FiloSottile: Woah. Same VM as yesterday, this time Windows Defender killed Superfish while I was still installing it. http://t.co/burPe…
- Fri, 23:12: RT @reckel: Should data sharing be more like gambling? via @rcourt @IEEESpectrum @AAAS_News talk by @erichorvitz @MSFTResearch http://t.co…
- Fri, 23:15: RT @alicetiara: LOL just got an alert that my Klout score went up & was offered a coupon for soy sauce. I should announce that I'm pregnan…
- Fri, 23:26: RT @JustRogDigiTec: Less typing? Yes please! “@gauravseth: ES6 Arrow functions. Supported natively in IE technical preview 4 Windows10. htt…
- Fri, 23:27: RT @docjamesw: Sorry @TechCrunch, old news. I fired the warning shot back in 2012. http://t.co/5xZp0MxfXY back when you were goo-goo for th…
- Fri, 23:29: "swipe right for" is the new Microsoft slang. Is there a North Star style swear jar for it yet? ;)
- Fri, 23:31: I felt a great disturbance in the Twitter as if a journalist had decided that Microsoft was boring and added Google to the story
- Fri, 23:40: Cracking your substandard encryption is not a third party introducing a vulnerability
- Sat, 01:33: Stochastic Privacy from @erichorvitz & others; state privacy risks as odd, let users think about the economics http://t.co/YJpC3dHzF8
- Sat, 01:37: RT @benwerd: Proposal: rename "native content" to "corporate truth".
- Sat, 01:41: Superfish never once looked at any of the Komodia marketing material then? Implausible deniability http://t.co/K0mSke8e1D
- Sat, 01:55: RT @TheColonial: “We need to write a security article.. quick! GET THE PADLOCK PICTURES!”
- Sat, 01:56: RT @Office365_Tech: What's your one wish for @MSOneNote? The product team wants to hear it! Join our #YamJam on Feb.25th from 9-10am PST ht…
- Sat, 01:57: RT @susie_c: Libertarians upset that I'm "profiteering" with "blood money" from my Silk Road trial paintings should brush up on their free …
- Sat, 01:57: RT @shaver: SSL is hard, but this is Superfish's whole job. It's like a player showing up to an NBA game in golf cleats and a snorkel.
- Sat, 02:09: HP saying it has a better class of crapware; do we agree? http://t.co/XvlpCazCIn
- Sat, 02:09: RT @edbott: Oh crap. "We've observed more than a dozen other software applications using the Komodia library" https://t.co/Xg3z53f5px
- Sat, 02:14: Cos using Komodia: CartCrunch WiredTools Say Media Over Rainbow Tech System Alerts ArcadeGiant Objectify Media Catalytix OptimizerMonitor
- Sat, 02:16: RT @orinthomas: .@Lenovo is working with MSFT and McAffee to have superfish & cert automatically removed http://t.co/qQcokn74IM
- Sat, 02:26: What other OEMs should be saying; we're going to audit all our preload software, just to be certain. Not pointing and mocking
- Sat, 02:26: RT @edbott: Putting the NO in Lenovo since ... well, basically, yesterday