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♥️ Merci #Microsoft pour tous ces efforts que vous déployez sans relâche depuis tant d'années pour me faire détester #MicrosoftWindows (et #MicrosoftOffice, soit dit en passant) et aimer profondément GNU/Linux et les #LogicielsLibres en général. Franchement, bravo et merci ! Continuez comme ça 👏

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#️⃣ #GAFAM #Windows10 #Windows11 #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #FOSS #FLOSS #Linux #BigTech #Windows #Windaube

www.linkedin.comWindows 11 : encore une excuse pour nous forcer à changer de PC | Cédric DelbergheWindows 11 : encore une excuse pour nous forcer à changer de PC Franchement, qui n’a pas déjà eu cette sensation d’être poussé vers la sortie par Microsoft ? Aujourd’hui, c’est au tour des processeurs Intel de 8e, 9e et 10e génération d’être mis sur la sellette avec Windows 11 24H2. Officiellement, si vous avez déjà Windows 11, pas de souci… mais pour combien de temps ? J’ai déjà vécu ça avec Windows 11 et son fichu TPM 2.0. Un PC encore performant, mais "pas assez sécurisé" selon Microsoft. Résultat ? J’ai dû bidouiller pour installer l’OS. Maintenant, on nous refait le coup avec les processeurs, histoire d’accélérer le renouvellement du matériel. Et demain ? Windows 12 exigera-t-il un abonnement et une IA intégrée pour ouvrir le Bloc-notes ? Microsoft, on peut parler d’innovation sans rendre obsolètes des machines encore parfaitement fonctionnelles ? #Windows11 #Sobriété #DSI | 11 comments on LinkedIn
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@pmevzek @Edent @rmbolger

nslookup isn't deprecated on Windows, which is what we're talking about here.

learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/wind

Good luck finding a dig for Windows. I'm still pointing people to William Stacey's netdig, I notice. I should probably fix that, since it vanished over a decade ago, which is a shame.

jdebp.uk/FGA/dns-diagnosis-too

Microsoft Learn
learn.microsoft.comnslookupReference article for the nslookup command, which displays information that you can use to diagnose Domain Name System (DNS) infrastructure.
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@Edent

It is a shame that neither

> Resolve-DnsName -Name where-is-the-iss.dedyn.io -Type LOC

nor

> nslookup -type=loc where-is-the-iss.dedyn.io

work.

Not even @rmbolger 's Resolve-Dns supports the LOC resource record type.

Although I suspect that might be the Windows tool that gains support the most quickly, just for the bragging rights of being able to show an ISS LOC record in Windows when no-one else can. (-:

@zombiewarrior @kebokyo @neil

If they truly did nothing, that would probably be better.

What they actually do is turn the setting off where most people test it to check that it is doing what it claims, i.e. running a WWW browser or suchlike application interactively, whilst covertly leaving it on in non-interactive but pretty serious parts of the system.

Until one day you fiddle with the #ProxyAutoConfiguration file, thinking that it's not in use, and you find that your supposedly dummy HTTP server is getting a lot of requests.

mastodonapp.uk/@JdeBP/11469605

Mastodon App UKJdeBP (@JdeBP@mastodonapp.uk)I've run ktrace/truss on the HTTP server as the easiest way to find out what requests it was receiving, given that they're either being conveniently downgraded from HTTPS to a CONNECT over HTTP, or were in HTTP already. There is good news and there is bad news. The good news is that there's nothing particularly new amongst the URLs. Microsoft discloses a lot, but not all, of them. A couple belong to other companies, but the connections to Microsoft, Google, et al. are overt. The bad news is that these are things like certificate revocation lists from Google, other certificate information, your Microsoft account login on Windows Live, Bing Maps, Windows Defender updates, and various other stuff. And they're all vulnerable to a WPAD attack on an untrusted LAN (e.g. your favourite Internet café) that has been known about for over 20 years. And, importantly, that the system administrator *thinks is turned off*. #MicrosoftWindows #WPAD #ProxyAutoConfiguration #infosec
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@kebokyo @neil

My biggest security concern this year wasn't anything to do with my static content servers, or even the machine they are running on, at all.

It was the fact that if one turns off WWW Proxy Auto Discovery in #MicrosoftWindows system settings, it turns out not to actually turn it off for some fairly vital things like the auto-updates for Windows and Office.

Top #Microsoft tip: Act as if #WPAD is always on, because it turns out that it is.