Microsoft has blocked the donation site FSF as "gambling"
The Free Software Foundation reports a strange fact: it turns out that the Microsoft Threat Management Gateway corporate firewall blocks the FSF donation page donate.fsf.org on the grounds that it falls into the category of “gambling”.
“If Microsoft’s“ reputation system ”cannot see the difference between gambling and a registered non-profit charitable organization with an independent audit founded almost 30 years ago, then such a system clearly does you and your business more harm than good,” the FSF said in a statement. .
Representatives of the FSF so far refrain from considering this error malicious. They filled out the Microsoft Threat Management Gateway error message form and are waiting for the result.
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Strange at first glance, the assumption of evil intent in reality is justified, because Microsoft has already been seen in this behavior. For example, a few years ago, the pages of the BadVista campaign came off suspiciously from the Live.com search results, while on Google the link to BadVista consistently appeared on the first page of search results on the query “Windows Vista”. Many people turned to Microsoft for clarification on this issue, but never received an answer, however, BadVista returned to search results.
The Free Software Foundation strongly discourages the use of proprietary software for network security, because “proprietary security software is an oxymoron, if the user does not have a code, there is no fundamental control over his program, then he cannot have security.”
Network Access Message: Access Denied Explanation: The page you are trying to browse to is categorized as "Gambling" Technical Information (for support personnel) Error Code: 403 Forbidden. Forefront TMG denied the specified Uniform Resource Locator (URL). (12233) IP Address: [IP Redacted] Date: 6/14/2012 6:31:39 PM [GMT] Server: [server name redacted] Source: proxy “If Microsoft’s“ reputation system ”cannot see the difference between gambling and a registered non-profit charitable organization with an independent audit founded almost 30 years ago, then such a system clearly does you and your business more harm than good,” the FSF said in a statement. .
Representatives of the FSF so far refrain from considering this error malicious. They filled out the Microsoft Threat Management Gateway error message form and are waiting for the result.
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Strange at first glance, the assumption of evil intent in reality is justified, because Microsoft has already been seen in this behavior. For example, a few years ago, the pages of the BadVista campaign came off suspiciously from the Live.com search results, while on Google the link to BadVista consistently appeared on the first page of search results on the query “Windows Vista”. Many people turned to Microsoft for clarification on this issue, but never received an answer, however, BadVista returned to search results.
The Free Software Foundation strongly discourages the use of proprietary software for network security, because “proprietary security software is an oxymoron, if the user does not have a code, there is no fundamental control over his program, then he cannot have security.”
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/146457/
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