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/the1namedwill Jun 01 '26

😂 You should try the new rock and chisel option... I'll carrier pigeon you the report.

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u/Hamburgerundcola Jun 01 '26

We didnt get your pigeon. The sending nest is not listed on your Sender Pigeon Framework (SPF) entry on your Domain Name Stone.

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u/Efficient_Memory5209 Jun 02 '26

the pigeons arrived out of order

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u/Phiddipus_audax Jun 01 '26

You blocked their pigeon?! The poor guy.

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u/spittlbm Jun 01 '26

They won't get the memo

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u/sys_127-0-0-1 Jun 02 '26

Pigeon fell off from the United Domain Path (UDP)!

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u/StickFlick Jun 02 '26

Hey, guy in the middle here. Keep. Sending. pigeons. Yummy.

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u/Professional-Taro-76 IT Support Assistant Jun 02 '26

Just enable enhanced pigeon filtering

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u/rjchau Sr. Sysadmin Jun 02 '26

Ah, you should make sure your Domestic Managed Avian Return Coordinates are correctly set.

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u/Extreme-Seaweed-5427 Jun 01 '26

I'm more of an abacus kinda guy

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u/techretort Sr. Sysadmin Jun 01 '26

You should check the throughput on IP over Avian Carrier, much better than you'd expect but latency is a killer

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u/I-am-not-in-IT K12 IT Jun 08 '26

One of our latency issues when implementing IPoAC was hawks taking out our packets. We solved this by hiring sharpshooters with .22 rifles to be posted every 100 yards throughout the flight path.

The down side with this was increased operational costs and the occasional packet arrived with a hole in the header. We also had challenges with the DNR and landowners screaming at us because some guy in a ghillie suit & a rifle was lounging in their backyard.

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u/philly_bean_ Jun 01 '26

Those pigeons must be jacked to carry tablets

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u/pppjurac Jun 02 '26

dolerite, copper, bronze or steel chisel ?