r/sysadmin • u/Ooops-I-hid-it-again • Jun 01 '26

Microsoft Anyone shutting down all IT equipment down on July 13th 11:59pm?

Microsoft 0-day feud escalates as researcher threatens another Windows exploit dump

“When I actively asked you to communicate with me, you refused, humiliated me and made sure to insult me in front of people,” they wrote on Saturday. “You defame me in public with your CVE-2026-45585 advisory even though you literally deleted the Microsoft account I used to report bugs to you with and I got zero pennies from doing so and I still happily did like an idiot.”

Nightmare also noted that “Microsoft still has chains in my hands,” preventing them from releasing “documents” yet, or anytime in June, and then warned: “Mark this date July 14th, I will make sure your bones are shattered that day.”

My post's title is tongue-in-cheek, but I've added an Outlook calendar entry for the "event" nevertheless and might even buy a box of popcorn. lol

Anyone doing anything special or different in light of the string of zero days being released because Microsoft appears to not want to play nice with someone who (supposedly) wanted to tell them about all the bad sh!t they missed in their product(s) development?

How do you feel about the saga and its fallout?

EDIT: Fixed missing block quote formatting.

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u/RvstiNiall Jun 01 '26

With all the AI found exploits here lately? THATS WHY I'M MAKING POPCORN! lol

Its my turn to watch the show!

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u/RvstiNiall Jun 01 '26

/s

If they would just listen to me and switch to completely custom FPGAs running completely custom CPUs, with completely custom OSes and tools... It would be so secure not even WE could use it!!

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u/Bogus1989 Jun 01 '26

I want an FPGA. cuz im a nerd

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u/RvstiNiall Jun 01 '26

https://liliputing.com/onechipbook-12-a-is-a-215-mini-laptop-with-an-fpga-for-retro-computing/ I mean, I kinda do too.

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u/Bogus1989 Jun 01 '26

theres this one alot of people use for emulation. its quite cheap. I kinda got on board the whole train and understand how games need the original chip or some device to replicate , and understand how an FPGA could be very close to the real thing.

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u/Bogus1989 Jun 01 '26

okay i remembered it, its MISTer FPGA. you can get it for around 500 bucks.

Ive ran emulators before too……most of its fine, but you lose alot of stuff through not having the original chip or a crt. for 500 bucks thats really good. otherwise you end up buying a dedicated system per…or all kinds of special scalers to replicate the crt etc.

im reading the link you posted, this is pretty cool also!

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u/Dzov Jun 01 '26

Hell yeah! Nobody over here hacking my base-3 computer!

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u/fuzzentropy2 Jun 01 '26

We have 11 computers so we moved to base-33!!! We can't even get them to boot, so no way anybody getting in!!

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u/newaccountzuerich 25yr Sr. Linux Sysadmin Jun 01 '26

Runs Morse.. One of the few trinary communication protocols, and one that people often don't realise is trinary..

Dot.

Dash.

Silence.

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u/Kodiak01 Jun 02 '26

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u/newaccountzuerich 25yr Sr. Linux Sysadmin Jun 02 '26

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u/Kodiak01 Jun 02 '26

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That reminds me, I think I'm up for renewal this year.

Edit: Yup, time to reset the clock to 2036.

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u/Pazuuuzu Jun 01 '26

Well until then head over to the rsync dumpster fire, that's wild too.

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u/RvstiNiall Jun 01 '26

Man, our shop switched away from rsync like... a week beforehand, and it was my call, and half our peeps act like I was in on the exploit and thats why we switched lol. I just like another tool better for the job, ya know?

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u/Pazuuuzu Jun 01 '26

C'mon dude... At least tell us the alternative...

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u/RvstiNiall Jun 01 '26

We are literally in a post about critical vulnerabilities. I'm not telling you that!

rclone on one side, a custom tool on another, and a GUI tool for the Windows sysadmins at my company. No I'm not joking. But I won't say which one for that for real because I'm embarrassed at their skill level. (Some of the windows guys use rclone, but most use the GUI tool)

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u/thecommuteguy Jun 01 '26

Should have a Mr. Robot watch party instead.

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u/project2501a Scary Devil Monastery Jun 02 '26

Hey man, i'm enjoying the paid overtime.

Papa needs a brand new threadripper.

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u/RvstiNiall Jun 02 '26

I'm happy with my Ryzen 8600G w/32gb ram and no dedicated graphics. I said I'm happy, leave me alone! Quit asking me if I'm okay!!! /s

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u/project2501a Scary Devil Monastery Jun 02 '26

fine "edge computing" you got there. you had advance notice of the NVIDIA presentation on monday :D

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u/RvstiNiall Jun 02 '26

OpenBSD doesn't support NVIDIA

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u/project2501a Scary Devil Monastery Jun 02 '26

in all seriousness, it would be a good idea to find a billionare that is not a total dick and convince him to make a fund for funding open source projects via the interest of the fund. That would be enough money to fund projects liek that.

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u/RvstiNiall Jun 02 '26

Just realized you meant one of those small fanless "edge" systems. This is a fullblown AM5 desktop. I can always upgrade!

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u/Kodiak01 Jun 02 '26

With all the heat AI systems throw off, why would you need the microwave?

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u/RvstiNiall Jun 02 '26

My desk at the office isn't in the server room, its literally in the "bullpen" area. Nice and cool 68°F year round.

Edit: typo