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UK hospital meltdown after ransomware worm uses NSA vuln to raid IT

Wzrd1 Silver badge

Irritating

For one, the NSA didn't write the garbage code that was SMB1. Microsoft did.

Said code repeatedly passed the excuse for code validation that Microsoft has.

That the NSA found six vulnerabilities and likely utilized them, well, they're military defense. Do you honestly expect any military organization to give away an advantage?

This is odd for me, as I have rarely defended the NSA!

I'll close with, *anyone* who permitted SMB1 protocol to exist on their network needs to be given the sack. Inefficient, network hogging worse that YouTube cat videos and pure rubbish coding has long turned that code to be a top list of first to disable on a baseline configuration. Right next to autorun, which even Microsoft figured out to disable by default. The only damned thing it's not vulnerable to is ping of death!

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