Reply to post: Re: Nervous criminals

China staggering under WannaCrypt outbreak

Robert Helpmann??
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Re: Nervous criminals

...the NSA started this. So it's their fault.

"He started it" was shot down as a viable argument in my life around grade 3. There's plenty of fault to be spread around on this one. The people who found the exploit and wrote the tools to use them, the people who stole the tools and released them into the wild, the people who implemented this campaign, the people running un-patched and unprotected machines, the people who wrote the OS with all the vulnerabilities and didn't get them patched quickly enough when said vulnerabilities were exposed... I am sure I am missing someone, but blame doesn't help at this point. It may help after it has been determined who pulled the trigger. I am more interested in what can be done to prevent crap like this from happening in the future and I don't hear that being discussed much.

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