you know, since this little saga began I've had this tiny voice in my head hoping this one vindictive dude is, eventually, directly responsible for Microsoft going out of business/doing severe restructuring or downsizing as a consequence of businesses losing faith in the company's products. Lots of people already raise an eyebrow at Windows 11's issues, things like "all our shit is fundamentally insecure because microslop left a backdoor in [insert critical thing here], and has been for [weeks/months/years/???]" tend to have an adverse effect on sales, especially to risk-averse business customers. It's not impossible to imagine that continued "holy fuck what 0day exploit just dropped?" incidents, on the level of YellowKey, happening every month, could result in businesses deciding to drop their enterprise licensing of MS products; and that's going to hurt. That's where a big chunk, if not the biggest chunk iirc, of their revenue comes from. It's unlikely, it's a longshot, but I'm allowed to have hope.

I'm especially now wondering, if YellowKey was the teaser -- you know, just casually revealing a backdoor in BitLocker, like nbd -- what the actual fuck are they going to drop in July? If that's the appetizer, how juicy's the entree gonna be?