In case you have not notices, it is always the incompetent that are selected as "leaders". And they then select people to work for them that are no threat because they are even less competent. In some rare conditions, actually competent people may be hired to help, but they are soon gotten rid of after they are not needed anymore, because they make everybody else appear in a bad light. Stupidity, arrogance, incompetence, greed. Always the same crap with the human race.

Simple: They cannot do anything valuable and hence try really hard to be managers. And the other managers that got into their positions the same way really welcome the non-competition. Can you imagine what utter catastrophe (for the other managers) an actually competent manage would be? People could notice that they are only faking it all the time!

I predict this is for show and they will simply get that money some other way.

Get independent security consulting and security audit from _small_ companies. And then you may find out that we know a _lot_ about security and how to do it right. Most people just do not want to hear it because it cost money and they may have to change some things.

Indeed. They so not even seem to be able to afford that security logging themselves, because they noticed nothing and they still do not know how the attackers got in.

Simple: No penalties, no liability, no warranty for software and software-based services and the usual idiots throw money at them like crazy. Hence they simply do not care (malfeasance) and there is also evidence enough they simply cannot do things right (incompetence). What Microsoft needs is software liability. And then to die as a result of that.

And why should things get better? They rake in more cash than ever for their crap. Nothing happens to anybody responsible for this extreme mess. So they will continue to sell crap.

No, they are not doing that. They did not do that last time either. They pretended to care about security for a while and then they proceeded to establish the utterly crappy state they are in now. The same will happen this time.

What else is new? There is no reason to believe these people will have better control of technology than they do of their lives.

They launched a bluetooth sender with some minimal endurance into low-earth-orbit (600km). Apparently, you can get that for $10k or less.

That is not how you get a "legitimate government" or I would have one right here in my flat.

You are not wrong. But at this time they still provide some service. I guess the next enshittification stage is that an "AI" tells you that you are fine and then charges you $10'000 for that.

And of you can convince some investors that you can, then you have a nice scam. And that is what is going on here.

Actually picking it up is easy. Just point one of these https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... at the satellite. Data transfer needs a _lot_ more. Oh, and their claim is they will be able to do that with a standard Bluetooth device on the ground to their satellite. That is pretty much impossible for a number of reasons.

An obvious scam, even if this "demonstration" is likely just a lie by misdirection.

And this was satellite-to-ground, i.e. the easy direction. Just point a rather large dish at the satellite and "detecting" some "signals" (which is all they did) becomes really easy. They "business claim" (a.k.a. scam) is that they will be able to do ground-to-satellite with standard Bluetooth hardware and actually transfer data. i.e. get a full connection. There is no chance at all that they can do that, and for multiple reasons.