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Bruce Schneier previously had this to say regarding IOTA:

> In 2017, leaving your crypto algorithm vulnerable to differential cryptanalysis is a rookie mistake. It says that no one of any calibre analyzed their system, and that the odds that their fix makes the system secure is low

Yup. Once this happened, I immediately lost complete faith in IOTA. Not to mention, their response to this was horrible.
Same. I don't know a single developer worth their salt who doesn't know the golden rule of working with cryptography. The team must be full of amateurs.

Also, does anyone know if IOTA is a real blockchain I seem to remember when I first looked into it that it seemed to be nothing more than a distributed database with centralized control.

This market is really greedy, any connection (justified or not) with an established brick & mortar company seems to give your cryptocurrency immediate visibility and boost.
It's very difficult for the investors to distinguish between different crypto-assets or even between crypto-assets and cryptocurrency. Any mention that describes one of those companies is seen as an endorsement -- that kinda thing really "helps" them distinguish.
It's funny how they make a big deal about having a link to Microsoft, but Microsoft doesn't mention them at all. https://www.google.com/search?q=site:microsoft.com+iota

The quote they have from Microsoft https://blog.iota.org/iota-data-marketplace-cb6be463ac7f appears to be from a sales guy https://www.linkedin.com/in/omkareshwar

The first result is a link to a MS blog post about Azure integration with IOTA: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-blockchain-upda...

But no mention of the marketplace demo (the subject of the article). You're correct, the quote is from a Sales guy involved with their blockchain strategy.

Making the claim of there being a partnership with a company because you have a container available on their cloud hosting platform seems a bit overstated to me.
Correct, the partnership referenced in the article instead refers to the marketplace demo.