[HacktionLab] WannaCry question

encosianima encosianima at riseup.net
Sun May 14 17:50:55 UTC 2017


IMHO:

IT administrators and USA president (in random order)

since:

a) are always right.

b) released the patches.

c) were in charge to apply security patches regularly released.

d, e, f, g, h) referred and are represented by USA president who thumbs 
up in their name

PS
There s also the chemtrail conspiracy theory to be considered


Vale



On 14/05/17 09:39, Mike Harris wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a question in my head regarding the WannaCry virus.
>
> If the virus was a success due largely to people running a 15 year old
> unsupported operating system (XP, or W2003), and if a security alert and
> patch was issued seven weeks ago, and if the exploit was allegedly
> developed/discovered by the NSA, or a group linked to the NSA, and if
> the World weren't informed about it upon it's discovery, but rather when
> another group made public this knowledge, and if the information about
> how to exploit it was published publicly quite a long time before it was
> exploited, time sufficient for systems to be patched, who is really to
> blame for it?
>
> a) Those who wrote the virus.
>
> b) Microsoft.
>
> c) IT administrators.
>
> d) The NSA
>
> e) The Ruskies
>
> f) Kim Jong-Un
>
> g) Aliens
>
> h) All of the above.
>
> The press and governments give a sensationalist viewpoint on it,
> mentioning cyber-attacks, cyber-hackers, but this virus doesn't seem to
> me to be really any different to those I used to get 30 years ago on my
> Atari ST from some dodgy floppy disk that I'd inserted; it's just that
> the means of spreading the virus is these days much, much more
> effective.  Yes it was a bad thing to do, and yes it's no doubt criminal
> damage, and yes, it's also extortion, but it's also indicative of an
> industry that has tied people into running a 15 year old proprietary
> operating system that is very widespread still but that hasn't had any
> security patches for three years, and which, I imagine, a lot of
> organisations haven't had the time, money, resources and/or inclination
> to mass upgrade.
>
> Mike.
>

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