Microsoft unleashes 'Death Star' on SolarWinds hackers in extraordinary response to breach

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63. Apple has another advantage over MS

You can’t format the startup volume on a Mac, and - as far as I know - you can still do it on a Windows box. Worse, you at least could do it with a Word macro. If I, for some reason, actually want to wipe a Mac startup volume, I have to start the machine from a different drive.

A long time ago I set up a Windows machine for graphic arts; we were getting a lot of files created on Windows machines and, before OpenType shipped, the fonts were different. (How long ago this was: those files were made in PageMaker.) When we specced out the box, I told my salesman “I want x RAM, y disk, and an office suite not made by Microsoft.” He looked at me like I was fucking nuts, but I explained about malicious Office macros and he then understood. The machine came in with WordPerfect Office. I also asked him to bring me Ethernet cables that were all different colors, and this he wouldn’t do. Then I had to expand the network to other machines in the building, and then I used different colors for every node. The guy came in a few months after I did, and I showed him the logic: if the receptionist’s computer is on a channel on the switch that goes dead and you know her cable is green, all you need do is move the green cable to a different Jack and you’re done. Simple and efficient. He never sold another system with all-white cables again.