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Microsoft to spooks: WannaCrypt was inevitable, quit hoarding

Adrian 4

Re: MS Marketing is brilliant

I have no love for MS. But they produced a fix when made aware of the problem. This is not their fault beyond a generally shoddy product. Black hats will always make use of a security hole before patches are adequately distributed, because patches are not and should not be applied without thought.

The blame lies with the NSA and goverments (UK has the same policy so is just as much to blame as US). Risk could have been reduced by adequate understanding of security. Which governments and civil servants resoundingly lack.

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