Victoria Police cancel hundreds of speeding fines after WannaCry virus attack
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Re: Victoria Police cancel hundreds of speeding fines after WannaCry virus attack
#2Every cloud has its silver lining.
Re: Victoria Police cancel hundreds of speeding fines after WannaCry virus attack
#3Every cloud has its silver lining.
Indeed, that's too funny for words.
Re: Victoria Police cancel hundreds of speeding fines after WannaCry virus attack
#4No mention that this security hole has been kept secret by US government and leaked with devastating consequences around the world.
You can't imply that it's the sole customers' fault by saying that it's "the easiest thing to do - update operating system" without mentioning NSA not cooperating with Microsoft to patch the hole.
Many setups require certification which is void after modifications which may include system updates so it's not "the easiest thing to do". It needs to go through the certification process again.
Even without certification requirements it may not be as trivial as it looks at first to "just update OS" on every device.
The "easiest thing to do" is for the government to report holes just like everybody else does.
Isn't it kind of strange that the only ones that fail to report security issues are a) criminals and b) government?
Re: Victoria Police cancel hundreds of speeding fines after WannaCry virus attack
#5Oh no
Re: Victoria Police cancel hundreds of speeding fines after WannaCry virus attack
#6No mention that this security hole has been kept secret by US government and leaked with devastating consequences around the world. You can't imply that it's the sole customers' fault by saying that it's "the easiest thing to do - update operating system" without mentioning NSA not cooperating with Microsoft to patch the hole. Many setups require certification which is void after modifications which may include syste…
> No mention that this security hole has been kept secret by US government and leaked with devastating consequences around the world.
This is irrelevant in this case. The infection happened months after the security holes had been made public and patches had been released. The same could have happened if the US government had immediately reported the security holes instead of keeping them secret.
> Many setups require certification which is void after modifications which may include system updates so it's not "the easiest thing to do". It needs to go through the certification process again.
That's seems like an utterly useless certification process then. Any certification worth its salt should refuse to certify a networked Windows computer that doesn't automatically install security updates, since things like this WILL happen.
Re: Victoria Police cancel hundreds of speeding fines after WannaCry virus attack
#7"I cancelled the fines because I think it's important the pubic has 100 per cent confidence in the system" [emphasis added]
o_O
Re: Victoria Police cancel hundreds of speeding fines after WannaCry virus attack
#8No mention that this security hole has been kept secret by US government and leaked with devastating consequences around the world. You can't imply that it's the sole customers' fault by saying that it's "the easiest thing to do - update operating system" without mentioning NSA not cooperating with Microsoft to patch the hole. Many setups require certification which is void after modifications which may include syste…
Why is a comment like this always at the top of one of these HN threads? Does everyone here actually believe that the NSA shouldn't hoard vulnerabilities? I find it hard to believe that people here would collectively be that naive and simple-minded in their thinking. The NSA hoards vulnerabilities for the same reason the military has guns. Because other countries have guns too. This is too obvious a point to be lost on the readers here. So, i'm left wondering who it is that's upvoting these things.
Re: Victoria Police cancel hundreds of speeding fines after WannaCry virus attack
#9No mention that this security hole has been kept secret by US government and leaked with devastating consequences around the world. You can't imply that it's the sole customers' fault by saying that it's "the easiest thing to do - update operating system" without mentioning NSA not cooperating with Microsoft to patch the hole. Many setups require certification which is void after modifications which may include syste…
Why is a comment like this always at the top of one of these HN threads? Does everyone here actually believe that the NSA shouldn't hoard vulnerabilities? I find it hard to believe that people here would collectively be that naive and simple-minded in their thinking. The NSA hoards vulnerabilities for the same reason the military has guns. Because other countries have guns too. This is too obvious a point to be lost…
I do get the impression a fair number of people actually believe the NSA shouldn't do this. Whether it's out of naiveté or wisdom is harder to tell, but I definitely don't get the impression everyone here is speaking from, say, 50 years of wisdom or experience in domestic and foreign policy or (cyber)warfare or what have you.
Re: Victoria Police cancel hundreds of speeding fines after WannaCry virus attack
#10No mention that this security hole has been kept secret by US government and leaked with devastating consequences around the world. You can't imply that it's the sole customers' fault by saying that it's "the easiest thing to do - update operating system" without mentioning NSA not cooperating with Microsoft to patch the hole. Many setups require certification which is void after modifications which may include syste…
Why is a comment like this always at the top of one of these HN threads? Does everyone here actually believe that the NSA shouldn't hoard vulnerabilities? I find it hard to believe that people here would collectively be that naive and simple-minded in their thinking. The NSA hoards vulnerabilities for the same reason the military has guns. Because other countries have guns too. This is too obvious a point to be lost…
The NSA hoards vulnerabilities for the same reason
the military has guns.
Because vulnerabilities can be independently discovered or accidentally released, then reproduced in vast quantities and used against the public and civilian infrastructure of both us and our allies - largely with impunity.
If wannacry was a gun, it'd be a gun that fired backwards and sideways at the same time as forwards, and you can't stop it firing once it's started, and sometimes it starts firing on its own.