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Despite Sanctions, Russian Organisations Acquire Microsoft Software (reuters.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: Software produced by Microsoft has been acquired by state organizations and firms in Russia and Crimea despite sanctions barring U.S-based companies from doing business with them, official documents show. The acquisitions, registered on the Russian state procurement database, show the limitations in the way foreign governments and firms enforce the U.S. sanctions, imposed on Russia over its annexation of the Crimea peninsula from Ukraine in 2014. Some of the users gave Microsoft fictitious data about their identity, people involved in the transactions told Reuters, exploiting a gap in the U.S. company's ability to keep its products out of their hands. The products in each case were sold via third parties and Reuters has no evidence that Microsoft sold products directly to entities hit by the sanctions. "Microsoft has a strong commitment to complying with legal requirements and we have been looking into this matter in recent weeks," a Microsoft representative said in an emailed response to questions from Reuters.
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They dont care because the jokes on them and us. It's full of backdoors!
Presumably they just bought it from https://www.reddit.com/r/micro... like the rest of us?
All you need is to sell to a third party state then they sell it to Russia without your "knowledge"
Using Microsoft software sure is a punishment.
What are those...
Sooner or later, they always go back to full Windows...
I assume Microsoft can't offer support for this software, and I very much doubt Russian authorities would crack down on the copyright infringement, so what's the point of paying for a license that holds no legal significance to anyone involved?
We started the hacking war first. Malware has been found to be used on Russian systems even though sanctions prohibit it!
Should I be worried that the Russians will get their hands on Microsoft product and learn where it's vulnerable and come up with ways to bring down the West's businesses? Or should I be comforted to know that the Russians will soon find their computing infrastructure subject to all the virii and worms that the West has to deal with?
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"Despite Sanctions, Russian Organisations Acquire Microsoft Software"
Why???
I am sure that there are many other solipsists out there.
With all the telemetry spy crap that's already in the OS itself, PLUS a foreign government that's known for it's spying. What could possibly go wrong?
The sanctions deal with Crimea. There's nothing against doing business in areas outside of Crimea. It's business as usual.
https://www.state.gov/e/eb/tfs/spi/ukrainerussia/
If we're being honest with ourselves, there is no better way to destroy someone's "cybersecurity" than to have them rely on Microsoft products. Frankly, anyone relying on them is asking for trouble.
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
Even a mildly competent basement dweller can get you a crack for any version of windows in 5 minutes (yes, even Windows 10).
However, you shouldn't trust anything you download off the internet no further than you can throw said basement dweller. Even if there's nothing else in the crack, most of them break if you download patches and cause other problems. If you have the money or are admin'ing a decent sized network you're probably going to end up paying more in manpower to support the cracked machines than you would for licenses.
Pretty sure they would just pirate it. Software sanctions are useless.
"Software produced by Microsoft" could mean anything from "Windows Server 2016" to "Clippy". The article gives no indication what they're talking about.
USSR and Russia were notorious is stealing IBM mainframe OS and all the auxiliary programs (PL/I, IMS, CICS). They, however, also stole ADABAS (popular in Europe) from the Germans and any other Software they wanted.
At the breakup of the USSR the west was flooded with PL/1 and ADABAS programmers.
Stealing software is a tradition in Russia
Cos I really struggle to buy computers without Microsoft software on them.
If Microsoft realy want to comply with the sanctin, they should desactivate they software that run inside the Russian border.
Ceci n'est pas une Signature !
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They can just pirate this software anyway.
My sympathies..
I was just about to say, "Russians acquire Microsoft software?" Payback's a BITCH, isn't it?!? LOL
oh, by the way, billgates is the password to all systems inside microsoft user by 3rd party vendors.
was told that it was too hard to change the password because it was hardcoded into their systems.
ha.. no worries.. they changed the password