Are you referring to running your own email servers specifically? If so then I agree it’s probably not worth the trouble. Email service is inexpensive with large providers and deliverability is good also with customer domains.

Totally worth it and we’ll recoup a large chunk since the money will be going to companies that pay their taxes. Not doing this isn’t even an option anymore.

The 1995 user interface soothes my nerves but I will give collabora a try

It’s apparently vibe coded but no less hilarious because of it.

I’m sure he is. Have they done livestreams in the past though?

Who’s going to provide the stream? Any advertisers left with some decency? Surely some will pull out. It’ll be hard to keep up the stream if it’s not an established service. I hope it gets DDOSed to high hell.

You can disable it for now

You already have. Shit like that drives conversion in the short term but it sacrifices usability and brand value. Managers love this shit because they can tell the board they made sales go up x% and then they’re off to ruin another business.

Somebody on twitter “reverse engineered” the exploit. Apparently ms shipped debug code in production. At least it’s not called Backdoor_FBI outright.

How it works:

1. Recovery tools look for a config file called RecoverySimulation.ini on the OS drive
2. If Active=Yes, it enables “test mode” for the recovery tools
3. Test mode unlocks your BitLocker drive but a flag called FailRelock tells it to skip relocking
4. cmd.exe spawns with full access to your “encrypted” drive

Apparently they are amazing aides for the visually impaired.

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