Quote: (05-13-2017 12:54 PM)Easy_C Wrote:
And that's why if you're doing ANY kind of extremely sensitive work, you should stay the fuck away from anything made by Microsoft. They ALL have backdoors built in. Your best bet is to use an off-brand CPU with a home-built OS, or at least a reputable Linux build.
This is nothing to do with sensitive work. Your PC that you are posting on right now is vulnerable to this attack. Do you have sufficient back up plans in place? Do you browse from a sandbox/VM? I bet you don't. If you are using Linux, then Ok, you are safe, and my bad.
For most people, they can't stay away from Microsoft. It's impossible. They have purposely let this shit in their code on pain of death from the NSA. Microsoft are owned. This has nothing to do with Microsoft really. This is the NSA. They are terrorists.
This isn't about people using chinese cpus or migrating to linux. It is about the millions of machines that run the infrastructure of today - hospitals, railway stations. They can not migrate. The systems are too built in to the infrastructure.
The NSA created a monster. This is payback. The NSA have probably caused deaths here in the UK with their fuckwittedness. No one else is to blame. Ok, maybe the script kiddies a bit. But they didn't start the fire.
Most people can not stay away from Microsoft. It is just not possible at all. Keep in mind a lot of these systems affected were legacy XP. WinX rolled out the updates as a matter of course so it's not affected. But every other version of windows is.
It is not possible to re-write software for a lot of systems in place. Why the fuck it is all connected to the internet is another argument for another day.
And what is "an off-brand CPU", "a home-built OS", "a reputable Linux build"?
This worm coupled with ransomware is a massive attack. Thankfully very little damage done (few deaths but hey ho). It targeted the systems in place that can not be changed, will not be changed for the next decade or so. Impossible. Not financially possible, not pragmatic at all in any kind of sense.
It's the beginning. It gets worse from here. Many more deaths to come.