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   Kevin Beaumont (gossithedog@cyberplace.social)'s status on Thursday, 05-Feb-2026 02:54:29 JST Kevin Beaumont

   This seems weird.. the exec in charge of cybersecurity at Microsoft, Charlie Bell, is being replaced as apparently he wants to be an individual contributor engineer (which I was) rather than an org leader.
   https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2026/02/04/updates-in-two-of-our-core-priorities/

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     JJ (guitarfosec@cyberplace.social)'s status on Thursday, 05-Feb-2026 02:57:11 JST JJ

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     @GossiTheDog Maybe he read Woz's biography and said "Wait, you can do that?"

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     Kevin Beaumont (gossithedog@cyberplace.social)'s status on Thursday, 05-Feb-2026 02:59:30 JST Kevin Beaumont

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     I have had people tell me cybersecurity is essentially being taken out of Connect (yearly goal reviews), which was Microsoft's big commitment to Congress as part of Secure Future Initiative.

     Brad Smith testified to US Congress everybody had to demonstrate what they'd done for security - but it's been watered down now to the point where it basically doesn't exist any more, I'm told. MS haven't told public about the changes.

     It's one to watch, to see if things start to backslide at MS w/ cyber.