KairuByte

Yeah, what? 3.1 not getting updates has nothing to do with this. Software developed for 3.1 can still be updated. This article is just silly.

I doubt many Lemmy servers are running enterprise level antivirus.

… what?

<.< My friend, look at the first of the two presented options.

Yes, most here will self host it. The app at least presents the concept of a centralized host as an option.

Why would Microsoft tell him what he wanted?

The spelling mistake isn’t the problem, it just makes no god damn sense.

Potentially but would you not expect one drive to at least remove the ones that it has access to?

Yeah, that doesn’t really apply to the story I was replying to. The complaint was about Microsoft not believing the user owned the account.

It’s tangentially related to the overall topic, and that could indeed be the root cause, but “they didn’t give him access because he didn’t know the new password” is security 101.

I’m honestly not even certain what you’re trying to say in that first sentence.

Almost always != always, and an individual falling for a scam where they hand off their password would typically fall into the category of “unable to prove ownership”.

No? The “root of the problem” is that the cloud service the files were stored in, was deauthed. At that point, I would absolutely expect all files to be deleted.

You can argue that M$ shouldn’t have pushed for that by default, but the problem as described is “user stored their important files in one drive, they gave away their password, password was changed, new password was unknown, one drive removed all local copies of files stored in it, microsoft couldn’t verify who they were when they called.”

Had this been the other way around, where the scammer got file access and the original user reset their password, you’d expect the scammer to have the local copies deleted… would you not?

I don’t know that I’d consider this their fault. The user handed their info over to someone else. Yeah, it sucks that the end result is losing their files, but you can’t really hold a company responsible for their users doing dumb things.