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by 0xcde4c3db 2449 days ago
If this is Microsoft's idea of performing a security function, I have to assume that submitted executables are also going into a giant database/archive that can be turned over to the three-letter agencies with a single National Security Letter, complete with any secrets embedded therein.

Like Bo Burnham says, I guess I should lower my expectations a lot.

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It's already happening.[0]

Marketplace Hansa was running Bitdefender, which pwned them to Europol.

> Europol has been supporting the investigation of criminal marketplaces on the Dark Web for a number of years. With the help of Bitdefender, an internet security company advising Europol's European Cybercrime Centre (EC3), Europol provided Dutch authorities with an investigation lead into Hansa in 2016. Subsequent enquiries located the Hansa market infrastructure in the Netherlands, with follow-up investigations by the Dutch police leading to the arrest of its two administrators in Germany and the seizure of servers in the Netherlands, Germany and Lithuania. Europol and partner agencies in those countries supported the Dutch National Police to take over the Hansa marketplace on 20 June 2017 under Dutch judicial authorisation, facilitating the covert monitoring of criminal activities on the platform until it was shut down today, 20 July 2017. In the past few weeks, the Dutch Police collected valuable information on high value targets and delivery addresses for a large number of orders. Some 10 000 foreign addresses of Hansa market buyers were passed on to Europol.

0) https://www.europol.europa.eu/newsroom/news/massive-blow-to-...

Haha, it's always great to see a Bo Burnham reference in the wild. He said that about love, though. Not... Microsoft.