Microsoft says tougher punishments needed for state-sponsored cybercriminals Microsoft is calling for more robust deterrents to be placed on nation-states as criminals continue to run rife across online systems "without any meaningful consequences." However, like those consequences, Microsoft's recommendations contained in its annual cybersecurity report - published today - lack specificity, and thus …
Fine.
As the government, I would lock up the CEO until the shit got sorted out.
How do you like that idea ?
You want me to be responsible ? I will responsibly go after the idiots who created this shitstorm in the first place. Your product is responsible for 99% of the Internet's problems.
You're first in line for my "responsibility".
Well, actually, "cybersecurity is everyone's responsibility,"
Although, now I see it written down, I seem to recall hearing something like that before, at my former employer, and the one before them, of course, and the one before them too.
In the absence of any likelihood that state-sponsored hackers will be either caught or subject to the law in any country whose IT they hack, the only viable responses are better security (you didn't hear that here first, I hope). Of course, finding out who they are, where they are and what they are doing will help, but, as the article notes, without any prospect of arrest or trial, tougher penalties in law might not make much of a difference.
M$ is a publicly traded company, and are probably (more or less) owned by foreign entities now right?
Obviously, russia and n korea and iran are able to get into any computer they want at anytime. Especially, with valuable information being thrown around in the hands of people who couldn't care less! It can be bought from criminals if nothing else.
Further more, Open Ai and the others are all part of "the bros". These are stupid rich agents of the enemies of America: who are influencing, and disrupting, and destroying everything they touch with complete intent (I wonder why)?
Not that they care! Because, if you want to start to clean house, you are going to have to do it internally first! You ARE the bad guys.
Indeed. The problem is, one operating system cannot do it all. It cannot be omnipresent by design. We need smaller, more specialized OS's that manage more specific needs. An over arching OS is asking for devastation on a global scale.
An enterprise system should be focussed on being compatible over many systems.
A Personal computer OS should be focussed on privacy.
A workstation should be focussed on productivity.
There is room for all. What we have now is a complete disaster, and epic fail, done by very evil people hobnobbing with other very evil people for personal gain. They do not give one iota about you or your needs.
Personal OS and Privacy? But how will copilot record and store everything you do on all your devices for “recall to function” without all these exploits, I mean features, that have been added into the core OS over decades. We can’t possibly live with stripped down windows. How will everyone and their dog know to sign up for a 365 subscription after every windows update and be reminded to set Edge as their default browser.
No… these security “issues” are by design, for profit, data hogging features.
"Russia, Iran, and North Korea are the main guilty parties here"
I'm sure Russia, Iran and North Korea will be extraditing the guilty parties posthaste. Yeah, right.
Failing any substantive action on the issue, we could always push an update to BGP to make their national networks disappear from the global Internet. At least they'll have trouble hacking something they can't reach.
Perhaps about time that Western government examined the companies that enable payment transfers to the bad actors (or the transfer of stolen funds), and went after insurers who pay out ransomware insurance, as well as the C-suite dorks that allow their companies to be attacked as a result of underinvestment or lack of will in the area of IT security. And nail the big IT companies knackers to a plank over their use of licence agreements to evade fitness for purpose laws. Treat software as a product, not a bit of "intellectual property", and apply product laws to it, that's wipe the smile of Big Tech's smug face.
Hell, I can't even see a lawyer about writing a will or employment rights without providing proof of identity "to stop money laundering", but when it comes to the big companies of the banking and payments systems it seems that it's not really about interrupting criminal activity, merely a self-sustaining system of regulators and sometimes compliant financial services companies.
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