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Methinks, I apologize for that last post when I said Microsoft needs to mend fences with Wave!! It’s more like Microsoft should be saying you know Wave, you had the better security ideas and we’re sorry that we weren’t a team player with you and we caused a good portion of the security debacle in the World and we’d be glad to hear your insights and share in your technology benefits so that we can properly change this country’s and the World’s cybersecurity!! Microsoft’s cybersecurity market share with Wave’s help could increase over the likes of Palo Alto, Crowdstrike and other’s cybersecurity. So do yourselves a favor and be a team player with Wave and gain the public’s trust back!! Or Wave could always partner with Google, Linux and Apple!! I’m sure Apple would love to hear all of Wave’s great ideas and become a force in the enterprise!!! But no, you guys keep thinking like a monopoly and not utilizing Trusted Computing!! I think Apple could replace you in the TCG!!!
https://www.propublica.org/article/microsoft-solarwinds-cybersecurity-house-homeland-security-hearing
I’m going to call Brad Smith Bart Simpson except Bart was a lovable cartoon character!! What is missing from this today is that Microsoft and Bart were responsible for much more than Solar Winds!! Microsoft needs to change its Secure Future Initiative to include Trusted Computing or all this executive pay being tied to security just isn’t going to fix the problem especially with Bart still in charge!!! They need to get together with Steven Sprague and Bill Solms and Wave and mend fences!! Otherwise, Microsoft is going down the tubes along with Microsoft’s ridiculously inferior wasteful cybersecurity products!! Snap out of your monopoly mindset Microsoft and think like a team player!! Actions speak louder than Bart’s words!!!!
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cisa-warns-of-criminals-impersonating-its-employees-in-phone-calls/amp/
Now if we were on Trusted phones with Samsung/Wave/Tesla, would this scam and other scams work? Probably not!!! Especially if all the computers and phones we’re using were required to have an activated TPM or TPM mobile to be on networks like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and the SWIFT network for transferring funds!!! Why doesn’t the CISA and government make the activation of TPMs mandatory so criminals will be cut off networks and be cut off from all of the cyber world!!!! A driver’s license or an activated TPM should be required if you want to get on the internet!! Sorry, but this Sh$t (sorry kids, I just had to use that word) has got to end!!
https://www.theregister.com/AMP/2024/06/12/white_house_report/
I think Brad should be asked the following question tomorrow: If the government spent what it did on Microsoft’s security then why were there so many cyber ‘incidents’ with the government as indicated in this article? Do you think Microsoft needs a little help with Wave? Maybe Anne Neuberger who met with the leader of the ASEAN countries said, ‘hey guys, we aren’t going to repeat what we have done with Microsoft over the last few years so that’s one of the reasons we are telling you about Trusted Computing and Wave!! Then maybe Japan and China don’t need to hear from Anne Neuberger and Wave will help them figure out that they could do so much better with Trusted Computing and Wave than just Microsoft!! What have you done lately Brad??
Hey Methinks, Nolan Bushnell is still alive I believe!! It was kind of cool to have him on Wave’s board!! He’s into educational software!! I wonder what he would think about what the TPM and Wave could do for protecting educational software?? Just think what Wave could do to secure online education!!!
Methinks, thank you for that!! I think the U.S. government and Microsoft had a hand in stopping this!! It’s really too bad, because the whole world could be secured!! Shame on whoever was president, and the Chinese could now put this into their computers and Wave could now do a deal with Dell, Intel and American Megatrends and make Trusted PCs!! Great find!!!
Methinks, UEFI is mentioned in this article!! Remember when Wave had a deal with American Megatrends for UEFI? I wonder if that deal would be applicable here? Why not?
https://www.zdnet.com/article/forget-lastpass-apple-unveils-passwords-manager-app-at-wwdc-2024/
Wave VSC is so much more secure, and do you trust the Apple ICloud Keychain for storing the credentials with this password manager?? The TPM is proven to protect credentials!! What has Apple proven except that it is copying password managers’ poor insecure technology!!! The iCloud is a big target!! The TPMs are spread out and one has to have the device to hack and the TPM is protected against malware attacks?? Is Apple protected from malware like the TPM is? Apple is not a leader anymore, it’s a follower!!! Just ask Elon Musk about Apple and its foray into AI!!!
https://www.neowin.net/amp/vmware-virtualbox-alternative-nanabox-finally-supports-tpm-20-for-windows-11-guests/
I see after the TPM has been around all this time and thoroughly tested that vendors like nana box support it!!! It doesn’t make any sense why we aren’t activating them?? After a press release like this and all the support behind TPMs one would think that the Biden administration would wake up a smell the TPM and SED coffee!! Maybe they like Microsoft’s HSM coke?? Or maybe they like smoking Crowdstrike and Palo Alto Jim Cramer flavored weed?? Who knows what Joe is doing, but I think TPM and SED coffee is the healthiest!!
Some type of reward would be nice or maybe we could work for Wave in the future to help them out!! I think we’ve done a lot already and the other shareholders did a lot too!!!
Thank you for all your posts Methinks!! My real aim is to see Wave succeed in providing better security for the world!! I haven’t sold a single share!! I believe they can do it because they get the job done with their software!!!
Methinks, I don’t know about you, but I’ve put like a million hours in posting!! The least SKS and Bill Solms could do is spend a few hours reading them!! What do you think??
Methinks, I think you and I have been chipping away at the concrete in front of our dream!!! Hopefully all the old Wavoids are reading our old stuff or SKS is reading it!!! It could really help Wave be resurrected if they got together with the information from our posts!! Doesn’t SKS and Bill Solms at least owe us an hour of their time to read the old posts??!!
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2024/06/07/amazon-best-buy-may-soon-sell-smart-devices-with-hacker-safe-label.html
Methinks, why doesn’t Dell, Lenovo and HP make a sticker that says ‘Trusted PC’ ‘Wave Secure’ for all the new PCs coming out in the 3rd quarter for the enterprise!! Wave knows what needs to be done to have a Trusted PC!!! Microsoft does not!!! That way with an Intel or AMD sticker computers could sell really fast!! Putting Microsoft co pilot AI sticker on them is not going to make the computers anymore appealing!! I think it’s time we got away from all the versions of Windows!! That doesn’t sell anymore, but TRUSTED PC would make computers more appealing!! Besides what version of Windows are we going to be on?? 12?? Can Microsoft really add anything else (AI???) that is ‘really’ going to make computers more appealing than a Trusted Computer with a ‘Wave Secure’ stamp?? This ‘Microsoft Recall’ feature has turned into a big joke!! Wave Solutions should be the new secure features for enterprise computers not Recall!!! Microsoft is struggling to make innovative useful products and needs Wave to help them out or they are going to be like a truck at a tractor pull with no tires!!!
https://seekingalpha.com/article/4697947-crowdstrike-stock-falcon-platform-game-changer-cybersecurity
Methinks, I have a question! How many data breaches have there been while companies have been using Crowdstrike’s Falcon platform? Crowdstrike has a wild looking commercial that captures the eye, but does their security get the job done if there have been all these data breaches? Perhaps Crowdstrike doesn’t really need to sell its new AI since their Falcon platform is so great, right?? And Crowdstrike, do you really stop breaches if you need to have AI?? Doesn’t pass the smell test!!! Because a lot of organizations buy into Crowdstrike, does that really mean they are having TRUE success!! I shouldn’t just be picking on Crowdstrike because there are a lot of other cybersecurity companies that just aren’t getting the job done either! Use Wave and get the job done!!!!
https://www.theregister.com/AMP/2024/06/08/uber_cso_joe_sullivan/
Methinks, if you want to watch an interesting interview with UBER’s ex-CSO, I highly recommend it!! You can sense the pulse of current CSOs and that pulse is HIGH!! He is saying that the responsibility should be with the board of directors and CEO!! Whether it’s the CEOs, BODs or CSOs fault shouldn’t be the focus here!! The focus should be on the President with an executive order and/or Congress to make the activation of hardware security (TPMs and SEDs) mandatory like a seat belt law!! That would take the stress off CEOs, CSOs and BODs as they would have to be spending money on better security (ie Wave)!! The security is already built in for heaven’s sake!! Why is everybody so STUPID and forming all these committees!! The TCG was formed over 20 years ago and has been tested and proven and I think Japan and China possibly are going to have a leg up on this Trusted Computing paradigm shift!! Wave has the solutions to protect data, devices, and networks!! It’s pretty simple, but we either have a lot of ignorant people or just stupid people running the show!! As you pointed out the Japanese are going to act fast and China will be right behind them!! I think the Asians are smarter than us except for the likes of Wave employees and Sir Steven Sprague!!!! Maybe Wave will have an easier time partnering again with the Asians than the U.S. who blew off Trusted Computing many years ago because all of Japan is behind the TCG as it has its own forum for Trusted Computing!! And look where we are now…Well if you listen to Joe Sullivan in this video you’ll hear about the true nightmare that organizations’ security is in!! And after hearing him speak and witnessing what’s going on with the current market, we haven’t learned a lot about using Trusted Computing for better security!!! I am really disgusted to say that I think the Biden administration, Trump and Obama have made a mess of this nation’s cybersecurity along with the big culprit in Microsoft!!! Let’s come together RIGHT NOW!!!!
And Methinks, Wave worked with PwC and AXA I believe!! Given all the cybersecurity out there that hasn’t gotten the job done, don’t you think that PwC and AXA should have Wave on their A list of cybersecurity companies!! Wave was also sold through Ingram Micro, Synnex CDW and other distributors!!! Seems like all these companies should be giving a shout out to Wave since I don’t believe I’ve ever heard a complaint about Wave’s security not getting the job done!!!
Methinks, you know AMD put Wave on the map with the co-processor many years ago so Wave could say to Intel, you know we’re good buddies with AMD too so you both should give us a good deal for a part in a Trusted Computer!! And Wave was part of ARM or Trustzone so if Microsoft is using ARM in its Surface computers, AMD, Intel and ARM could be like the three waveteers!!! And Wave had their software built into Lenovo, Dell, Acer and HP had Infineon chips which Wave worked with as well!!! And of course we can’t forget Samsung and Apple had Trustzone built into many of its phones and Wave had that agreement with Samsung for bundling its software with the TPMs!! It seems like Wave was working with everybody and could be working with everybody!!! They were even bundled with a couple of TPMs!! Are all of these companies afraid that Wave could have the upper negotiation power with each of them?! I’m sure Wave would play fair with all of them and make the World have better security!! Wave also worked with NTT Data, Fujitsu, NEC and Asus!! I wonder why Wave can’t rekindle all these relationships!! Maybe they thought SKS was TOO smart!! SKS was I believe a welder or did some stuff with cars so he is a humble guy that really wants to see the World use Wave so it has better security!! I know I do!!! Why can’t we all work together to achieve that!! Together Everyone Achieves More!!!!!
Methinks, Microsoft Surface has decided to go with ARM for its processors while all the other computer companies are going with Intel!! Wouldn’t it be funny if these computer companies decided to build a trusted computer with Wave and Intel and shut out Microsoft’s Surface computers? I think that would be funny!!! Maybe they would sell better than just with the co pilot AI alone!! I’ve heard some not so good things about co pilot!!! Wave was pretty tight with Intel back in the day!!!’
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-makes-windows-recall-opt-in-secures-data-with-windows-hello/amp/
Shouldn’t organizations have the choice to use either Windows Hello or Wave VSC (interoperable)? Seems like Microsoft is using its monopolistic power to give only the choice of using Windows Hello!! Maybe organizations would want to pay for security that isn’t a lock-in like Windows Hello which is for free!! Is Microsoft afraid that people would rather pay for multi factor authentication that is better instead of using its free lock-in Windows Hello?? Don’t the regulators have anything to say about these monopolistic practices?!
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/lastpass-says-12-hour-outage-caused-by-bad-chrome-extension-update/amp/
Now would this have happened if organizations were using Wave MFA or Wave VSC?? I think NOT!!! SWITCH TO WAVE!!!
That was a good post Methinks!! Japan could leap frog the U.S. with Trusted Computing and Wave!!! It’s unfortunate that it’s going to take Japan months!! Who know what China could do with Wave, Lenovo and Trusted Computing in that timeframe!! China can be tight lipped so it would make sense that Japan and the rest of the world would want to hurry up their Trusted Computing plans and Wave could help BIG TIME!!!! You know before China could have a dominant position in security!!
Sorry Nadella, but I know you have done some good things for India which is nice, but you have needlessly crushed competition and haven’t used a shared mentality to benefit the World!! A 3 trillion dollar market cap doesn’t necessarily make you a winner in life as I’m sure you know!! But please try to be good and increase your stock price!! That is possible!!!
https://fortune.com/2024/06/07/microsoft-satya-nadella-leader-fortune-500-ceo-admire-most-management-philosophy/
With Nadella’s monopolistic management philosophy, how much good has he done for our country’s cybersecurity!! And how many times has the government and organizations been coerced or forced to use Microsoft products? I give Nadella a D- !! Not an F because he has done some good things for the environment!! But without all these data centers being built and using Wave’s Trust @ the Edge of the network the environment could have been even better!! It’s good to be Thankful Nadella, but it is also good to be good!!! And I think I’ve ‘learned’ that you are lacking that characteristic!!
https://cyberscoop.com/congress-cybersecurity-harmonization-oncd-report/
Just what we need…..ANOTHER COMMITTEE!!! Joe Biden needs his administration to cut out the committees and have some leaders like Anne Neuberger, Jen Easterly and Steven Sprague get going on securing our nation with Trusted Computing!! Enough of this Microsoft, Palo Alto, Crowdstrike, Okta,, Securid and other bullsh$t leading our country’s cybersecurity!!! They’ve had their chance and it’s not working!!! Wave and hardware security (ie. TPMs and SEDs) is what we should be building our cybersecurity foundation on!!! Harmonization??? What a bunch of bullsh$t (excuse my French)!!!!
https://www.csoonline.com/article/2138385/major-service-tag-security-problems-reported-in-microsoft-azure.html/amp/
As Wave said a long time ago, why are we using firewalls? Read this article and you’ll probably say, “Yeah, why?” And why are we listening to Microsoft as the ‘leader’ in cybersecurity?? I think this article is just one of the many reasons the market should be using Wave instead of Microsoft!!!
I’m sorry Brad, maybe you did some good while you were at Microsoft!! You did help Microsoft’s market cap grow to 3 trillion!! In helping accomplish that I’m just not sure how much good you did along the way, I can’t be the judge of that!!!
And then after Microsoft leaves the world with screwed up wasteful cybersecurity that caused so many problems and of which helped Brad Smith make $18 million last year he goes and buys a stake in the Mariners baseball team!! What a guy!!!
https://www.jsonline.com/story/money/business/2024/06/06/wisconsin-values-continue-to-resonate-for-microsoft-president-brad-smith/73770931007/
What a PR piece for Brad Smith!!! I say grill him for what he has done for the World’s cybersecurity!! I’m sure he had a hand in putting Wave out business and thus led SFI for Microsoft to become the company with the most wasteful products for cybersecurity!!! He deserves a real grilling next week!! Micosoft is just trying to have us focus on the good Brad Smith did!! He did no good when he was with Microsoft!!!
https://www.investors.com/news/technology/google-stock-googl-mandiant-cybersecurity/
What a joke!! Mandiant handles 1,100 breach investigations a year!!! Why do people use Google’s AI and zero trust? Companies are probably using that and they call Mandiant to clean up!! No wonder the CEO stepped down!! Get security that gets the job done and doesn’t need Mandiant, USE WAVE!!!
https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/4705671-shaming-microsoft-wont-strengthen-us-cybersecurity-its-time-for-alternatives/damp/?nxs-test=damp
You have to wonder how much money the government would save if computing was done on computers and not in the BIG TARGET also known as the cloud!! You also have to wonder how secure that data is in the Microsoft Cloud being the big target it is?! Trust @ the Edge with Wave is just a better idea for energy efficiency, no data centers on farmland, no wasting water, better security and its cheaper. But I think people like to say the word ‘cloud’ and ‘AI’ because somehow that sounds better or makes you feel like you are hanging with what’s popular. Pretty soon the world is going to be one big data center!!! Hard drives on computers are so being underutilized and that is such a WASTE!!! Microsoft, Google and AWS clouds probably know this but they want to keep being money making machines without concern for the environment or costs to the world!!
Maybe Biden doesn’t realize there are a 100+ companies in the TCG that could KICK MICROSOFT’S ASS by electing Wave as the leader for the TCG!! That would give Joe his balls back!!! Right now he doesn’t have any playing buddies with Microsoft!! Screw the AI data center in Wisconsin Joe!! I watched a 60 minutes report on what the Trump campaign did in Wisconsin last year so Wisconsin could vote democrat without the data center. That won’t happen again this year so if Microsoft threatens you with a wink about its evil power playing tell them you have many supporting companies ready to do the right thing with cybersecurity and Microsoft can go pound sand until they act for the good of this country!!!
https://www.techradar.com/pro/despite-hack-and-senate-complaints-pentagon-says-it-will-continue-microsoft-usage
Biden is ignoring a republican and democrat senator who have a diversified cybersecurity approach!! Or maybe Biden is just stupidly letting the CIO of the Pentagon do what he wants because Microsoft THINKS they have everyone by the balls!! I’m going to tell a lot of people not to vote for Joe if this crap continues and I’m sure the senators who want better cybersecurity will do the same!! If we continue totally relying on Microsoft’s security this country will continue going in the TOILET!!! Get better security, get Wave!!!!
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c288n8rkpvno.amp
Methinks, it can be a matter of life and death when organizations don’t use Wave and hardware security!! I don’t think the NHS is using Wave or this attack wouldn’t have happened!! What do you think??
https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/3/24170305/microsoft-windows-recall-ai-screenshots-security-privacy-issues
See the excerpts below!! Kevin Beaumont is trying to downplay data at rest on computers getting stolen from just your home!! It can get stolen from your car, the subway, an airport etc. etc!! Microsoft’s new motto is to do security first???? Then why not use SEDs when Bitlocker is insecure!! Microsoft is not ‘doing security’ first!!
Microsoft’s FAQ page doesn’t address the potential for malware to try and steal the Recall database, though. “Recall snapshots are kept on Copilot Plus PCs themselves, on the local hard disk, and are protected using data encryption on your device and (if you have Windows 11 Pro or an enterprise Windows 11 SKU) BitLocker,” says Microsoft.
As Beaumont points out, disk encryption is only good for certain scenarios. “When you’re logged into a PC and run software, things are decrypted for you,” explains Beaumont. “Encryption at rest only helps if somebody comes to your house and physically steals your laptop — that isn’t what criminal hackers do.”
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2024/06/03/microsoft-is-again-named-the-overall-leader-in-the-forrester-wave-for-xdr/
This article and the security that these organizations use from Microsoft makes me want to PUKE!!! Forrester and Gartner make me sick!! Take some vitamins people and use Trusted Computing and Wave!!’
https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2024-06-03-gartner-identifies-three-areas-for-cisos-to-augment-their-cybersecurity-approach
Bla bla bla Gartner!! How about you promote trusted computing which works!! NOT AI and and the continuous monitoring burnout security!! You guys shouldn’t be thought leaders in cybersecurity!! You guys are probably most of the reason our country’s cybersecurity sucks and doesn’t get the job done!!! Get Wave!!!!
https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/bitlocker-key-sniffing-is-still-possible-on-modern-windows-11-laptops-with-discrete-tpm-modules
Okay, so if what’s in this article is true why aren’t organizations using SEDs (self encrypting Drives) and Wave!!!
https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/windows-11/microsoft-might-have-blocked-a-sneaky-bypass-that-let-you-setup-windows-11-without-a-microsoft-account
Why doesn’t Microsoft use the TPM as an identifier to Micosoft Accounts??
https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-shareholders-urged-vote-for-ratification-musk-2018-pay-plan/amp/
Sorry, but I have to comment on this article about Tesla. This pay package is ‘critical to Elon’s motivation’?? What about Elon’s motivation to be a good human being!! Does he need $50 billion for that? He is by far the best CEO out there, but even based on the original agreement should anyone be paid that for their ‘motivation’! I think Elon should take charge of this situation, take a pay cut, share with the employees, make Delaware, Texas and the world a happier place and get shares with increased voting rights so he has 25% of the voting rights!!! And he could donate at least a billion to the vets of America. He’d have more people with patriotism for Tesla and take care of these vets!! Tesla is iconic Americana!! Let’s go Elon, don’t let this battle over the proxy vote continue so Tesla can focus better!!!! And maybe Elon you could send some money towards World peace and the homeless!! I know I’m asking for a lot, but you would make this shareholder happier in doing something like this!!
Sincerely,
A big Elon Musk and Tesla Fan