Microsoft openly admitting they have not(!) had MFA, network segmentation, least privilege, software lifecycle, jump-servers, asset- and software-inventory etc for Azure PROD for years and they are not there yet.
This whole report is just so scary. At the same time, good that they are finally working on it and making it transparent.
Microsoft is just stalling!
End the fucking contracts!
Particle News: Microsoft Expands Inquiry Into Israeli Military’s Use of Azure for Palestinian Call Surveillance
Microsoft launches formal review into alleged use of its Azure cloud in Palestinian surveillance - A crowd outside Microsoft’s 50th anniversary event in Redmond protests the compan... - https://www.geekwire.com/2025/microsoft-launches-formal-review-into-alleged-use-of-its-azure-cloud-in-palestinian-surveillance/ #noazureforapartheid #covington&burling #masssurveillance #israelimilitary #cloudcomputing #humanrights #theguardian #microsoft #palestine #aiethics #westbank #azure #gaza
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Microsoft recently had it's A.I. division take over Github.
Microsoft also owns npm.
Microsoft also hosts over 11 thousand terabytes of Israeli military data on it's Azure servers collected from the mass surveillance of Palestinians, which the Israeli military uses to blackmail people, hold them in captivity, and justify killing them after the fact.
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"One afternoon in late 2021, Microsoft’s chief executive, Satya Nadella, met with the commander of Israel’s military surveillance agency, Unit 8200. On the spy chief’s agenda: moving vast amounts of top secret intelligence material into the US company’s cloud.
Meeting at Microsoft’s headquarters near Seattle, a former chicken farm turned hi-tech campus, the spymaster, Yossi Sariel, won Nadella’s support for a plan that would grant Unit 8200 access to a customised and segregated area within Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform.
Armed with Azure’s near-limitless storage capacity, Unit 8200 began building a powerful new mass surveillance tool: a sweeping and intrusive system that collects and stores recordings of millions of mobile phone calls made each day by Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.
Revealed here for the first time in an investigation by the Guardian with the Israeli-Palestinian publication +972 Magazine and Hebrew-language outlet Local Call, the cloud-based system – which first became operational in 2022 – enables Unit 8200 to store a giant trove of calls daily for extended periods of time.
Microsoft claims Nadella was unaware of what kind of data Unit 8200 planned to store in Azure. But a cache of leaked Microsoft documents and interviews with 11 sources from the company and Israeli military intelligence reveals how Azure has been used by Unit 8200 to store this expansive archive of everyday Palestinian communications."
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#AI Microsoft's Azure used to store millions of Palestinian phone calls
#Microsoft's #Azure cloud platform has been used by Israel's military intelligence unit to store vast amounts of data, including millions of phone calls made by Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. This capability, initiated in 2021 under the direction of Unit 8200's former commander, Yoav Sariel, allows for extensive surveillance and potential use of data for military operations.
#Microsoft claims no knowledge of the specific data stored, internal documents reveal a multi-year partnership aimed at leveraging Azure's storage for intelligence purposes.
See also https://kolektiva.social/@oatmeal/114827622817744764
"Unit 8200 sources said intelligence drawn from the enormous repositories of phone calls held in Azure had been used to research and identify bombing targets in Gaza ... the information stored in Azure amounted to a rich repository of intelligence about its population that some in the unit claimed had been used to blackmail people, place them in detention, or even justify their killing after the fact"
This will serve as a reminder that Microsoft and Xbox, specifically, are on the BDS list!
A company profiting from genocide will not be profiting from the people!
Israel is reportedly storing millions of Palestinian phone calls on Microsoft servers
‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians | Israel | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/06/microsoft-israeli-military-palestinian-phone-calls-cloud
#Palestine #Israel #USA #Microsoft #Azure #Surveillance
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"Unit 8200 sources said intelligence drawn from the enormous repositories of phone calls held in #Azure had been used to research and identify bombing targets in #Gaza."
#Microsoft Ireland supports Israel’s military surveillance agency, Unit 8200 to store millions of mobile phone calls made each day by Palestinians in #Gaza and the West Bank using #Azure servers based in Ireland. (More are stored on Azure servers in the Netherlands.)
"According to three Unit 8200 sources, the cloud-based storage platform has facilitated the preparation of deadly airstrikes and has shaped military operations in Gaza and the West Bank."
Microsoft store Israeli military intelligence's data from mass surveillance of Palestinians on servers in the EU, including here in Ireland.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/06/microsoft-israeli-military-palestinian-phone-calls-cloud
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/06/microsoft-israeli-military-palestinian-phone-calls-cloud Read the report from The Gurdian on #microsoft & #Azure & #Israel #military #palestine #surveillance
#Microsoft says an investigation it commissioned found no evidence that #Azure or its #AI technologies have been used to harm people or in ways that violate its terms of service or AI code of conduct. Ekō (formerly SumOfUs) says Microsoft and other big technology companies have become “weapons companies”.
Day 483. When managing an #Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server through #Terraform, upgrading your database's version by changing the 'version' property forces a recreation of the resource, wiping all of your data.
"Azure surpassed $75 billion in revenue, up 34 percent, driven by growth across all workloads."
Microsoft Releases FY25 Q4 Earnings Report
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Investor/earnings/FY-2025-Q4/press-release-webcast
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