<![CDATA[Look at this fantastic piece of advice from Microsoft!]]>Look at this fantastic piece of advice from Microsoft! https://learn.microsoft.com/en-au/answers/questions/2007466/are-costs-incurred-when-attempting-to-scan-passwor

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/710282e2-64b1-47f6-afc6-a961eab26525/look-at-this-fantastic-piece-of-advice-from-microsoftRSS for NodeThu, 30 Apr 2026 21:52:19 GMTWed, 22 Apr 2026 09:32:22 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Look at this fantastic piece of advice from Microsoft! on Sat, 25 Apr 2026 09:39:54 GMT]]>@theodric you made me open up a Microsoft website 🤯

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/badrihippo/statuses/116464680629192840https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/badrihippo/statuses/116464680629192840Sat, 25 Apr 2026 09:39:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Look at this fantastic piece of advice from Microsoft! on Sat, 25 Apr 2026 04:14:53 GMT]]>@theodric I’m sure this response was perfectly appropriate…

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mas.to/users/su_liam/statuses/116463402571704151https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mas.to/users/su_liam/statuses/116463402571704151Sat, 25 Apr 2026 04:14:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Look at this fantastic piece of advice from Microsoft! on Sat, 25 Apr 2026 03:50:18 GMT]]>@theodric@social.linux.pizza google is evil but they're good at what they do. Microsoft is just evil

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://transfem.social/notes/alhd8bvzagpm0biihttps://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://transfem.social/notes/alhd8bvzagpm0biiSat, 25 Apr 2026 03:50:18 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Look at this fantastic piece of advice from Microsoft! on Fri, 24 Apr 2026 22:25:52 GMT]]>@swelljoe your logic is impeccable.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/womble/statuses/116462030216511739https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/womble/statuses/116462030216511739Fri, 24 Apr 2026 22:25:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Look at this fantastic piece of advice from Microsoft! on Fri, 24 Apr 2026 21:02:42 GMT]]>@theodric ah, passwords as social convention

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://gts.foxsnuggl.es/users/aura/statuses/01KQ0MTM5QMVEAYR1JW8K4919Thttps://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://gts.foxsnuggl.es/users/aura/statuses/01KQ0MTM5QMVEAYR1JW8K4919TFri, 24 Apr 2026 21:02:42 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Look at this fantastic piece of advice from Microsoft! on Fri, 24 Apr 2026 20:49:26 GMT]]>@theodric relatedly, if everybody uses the same password the odds of someone guessing a password goes way down, right? Like, if there are 50 people in an organization and they each have their own password, an attacker is 50 times more likely to guess a password. That's just basic math.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mas.to/users/swelljoe/statuses/116461650972522748https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mas.to/users/swelljoe/statuses/116461650972522748Fri, 24 Apr 2026 20:49:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Look at this fantastic piece of advice from Microsoft! on Fri, 24 Apr 2026 20:37:31 GMT]]>@theodric I am concerned that Defender is trying to decrypt files at all...

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/Epic_Null/statuses/116461604132726661https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/Epic_Null/statuses/116461604132726661Fri, 24 Apr 2026 20:37:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Look at this fantastic piece of advice from Microsoft! on Fri, 24 Apr 2026 20:37:22 GMT]]>@theodric

Classic Microslop

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/sauc3/statuses/116461603548480509https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/sauc3/statuses/116461603548480509Fri, 24 Apr 2026 20:37:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Look at this fantastic piece of advice from Microsoft! on Thu, 23 Apr 2026 21:59:41 GMT]]>@theodric In an unrelated statement, a Microsoft employee also recommended the use of generic locks that are easy to pick, lest you’ll never be locked out of your house again.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/mahryekuh/statuses/116456264924383113https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://hachyderm.io/users/mahryekuh/statuses/116456264924383113Thu, 23 Apr 2026 21:59:41 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Look at this fantastic piece of advice from Microsoft! on Thu, 23 Apr 2026 17:36:53 GMT]]>@IceWolf @theodric make sure to be as unsafe as possible so windows doesn't need to put in any work on... services that worked just fine before?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://meow.social/users/TheTenuousOrder/statuses/116455231546699982https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://meow.social/users/TheTenuousOrder/statuses/116455231546699982Thu, 23 Apr 2026 17:36:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Look at this fantastic piece of advice from Microsoft! on Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:29:27 GMT]]>@theodric what the..what??

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://masto.brightfur.net/users/IceWolf/statuses/116454966362959116https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://masto.brightfur.net/users/IceWolf/statuses/116454966362959116Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:29:27 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Look at this fantastic piece of advice from Microsoft! on Thu, 23 Apr 2026 14:55:55 GMT]]>@hugh @theodric It's worse, if you were to follow the advice above it in the article, you would either include the password in the text of the email or use the filename as the password

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://discuss.systems/users/ricci/statuses/116454598613588571https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://discuss.systems/users/ricci/statuses/116454598613588571Thu, 23 Apr 2026 14:55:55 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Look at this fantastic piece of advice from Microsoft! on Thu, 23 Apr 2026 14:43:24 GMT]]>@theodric

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://en.osm.town/users/rmikke/statuses/116454549393884648https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://en.osm.town/users/rmikke/statuses/116454549393884648Thu, 23 Apr 2026 14:43:24 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Look at this fantastic piece of advice from Microsoft! on Thu, 23 Apr 2026 14:27:09 GMT]]>@kr3st3n@infosec.exchange @theodric@social.linux.pizza @phloggen@expressional.social a related one is to generate a bunch of very large benign archives to flood the scan queue before it picks up your payload, giving it time to execute before the system flags it.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://enby.life/notes/alf53lx1j9https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://enby.life/notes/alf53lx1j9Thu, 23 Apr 2026 14:27:09 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Look at this fantastic piece of advice from Microsoft! on Thu, 23 Apr 2026 14:23:34 GMT]]>@kr3st3n@infosec.exchange @theodric@social.linux.pizza @phloggen@expressional.social this is an actual technique that works against many commercial AV and EDR solutions

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://enby.life/notes/alf4z0b3j8https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://enby.life/notes/alf4z0b3j8Thu, 23 Apr 2026 14:23:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Look at this fantastic piece of advice from Microsoft! on Thu, 23 Apr 2026 12:37:58 GMT]]>@EveHasWords @theodric Yeah, maybe I was giving too much merit to the Microsoft employee who posted the reply...

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/LeoRJorge/statuses/116454056148414158https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/LeoRJorge/statuses/116454056148414158Thu, 23 Apr 2026 12:37:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Look at this fantastic piece of advice from Microsoft! on Thu, 23 Apr 2026 12:13:31 GMT]]>@kr3st3n @theodric @phloggen yeah but it also says “Ensure that the size of the password-protected zip files does not exceed the 2 GB limit to avoid unnecessary consumption of the scanning quota.”??

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://tech.lgbt/users/h5e/statuses/116453960020418158https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://tech.lgbt/users/h5e/statuses/116453960020418158Thu, 23 Apr 2026 12:13:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Look at this fantastic piece of advice from Microsoft! on Thu, 23 Apr 2026 12:01:10 GMT]]>@LeoRJorge @theodric Offering irrelevant / off topic advice is pretty normal for humans where complicated or obscure questions are in play (source: reading lots of StackOverflow and forum responses written before the advent of stochastic parrots). That said, I do agree this is likely slop since the point about the passwords would have to be hallucinated.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://toot.cat/users/EveHasWords/statuses/116453911444658656https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://toot.cat/users/EveHasWords/statuses/116453911444658656Thu, 23 Apr 2026 12:01:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Look at this fantastic piece of advice from Microsoft! on Thu, 23 Apr 2026 11:59:55 GMT]]>@theodric
Does it suggest "password" or "ABC123"?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.nz/users/hugh/statuses/116453906554357591https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.nz/users/hugh/statuses/116453906554357591Thu, 23 Apr 2026 11:59:55 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Look at this fantastic piece of advice from Microsoft! on Thu, 23 Apr 2026 11:50:53 GMT]]>@theodric “Microsoft has methods for scanning the contents of password-protected zip files, such as extracting possible passwords from the bodies of an email or the name of the file itself[.]” Cool and normal stuff, your storage provider telling you that they are essentially cracking your data.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://writeout.ink/users/ljwrites/statuses/116453871047578140https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://writeout.ink/users/ljwrites/statuses/116453871047578140Thu, 23 Apr 2026 11:50:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Look at this fantastic piece of advice from Microsoft! on Thu, 23 Apr 2026 11:13:19 GMT]]>@theodric p4ssw0rd1

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://gursoy.social/users/burak/statuses/116453723317592271https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://gursoy.social/users/burak/statuses/116453723317592271Thu, 23 Apr 2026 11:13:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Look at this fantastic piece of advice from Microsoft! on Thu, 23 Apr 2026 10:57:30 GMT]]>@kc@social.coop the fines are just the price of doing business 😜

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://possum.city/notes/alexm0gz9sll04jthttps://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://possum.city/notes/alexm0gz9sll04jtThu, 23 Apr 2026 10:57:30 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Look at this fantastic piece of advice from Microsoft! on Thu, 23 Apr 2026 10:01:40 GMT]]>@theodric omfg. seriously.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://ioc.exchange/users/bluetea/statuses/116453441565777150https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://ioc.exchange/users/bluetea/statuses/116453441565777150Thu, 23 Apr 2026 10:01:40 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Look at this fantastic piece of advice from Microsoft! on Thu, 23 Apr 2026 09:14:07 GMT]]>@theodric This has to be an LLM response... even leaving alone this horrible security advice, the whole response is trying to do the exact opposite of what the OP asked!

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