You can totally trust our advice for all your digital security needs. - your friendly neighborhood intelligence agency.
You don't trust NSA, so you're going to not patch your systems? Are you worried that the patch is a delivery vehicle for their APT implants?
NSA Cybersecurity Advisory: Patch Remote Desktop Services on Legacy Windows
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#12Who has the fear of visiting a URL owned by a three letter agency known for nefarious spying activities? I do! So here is a third party report for anyone else that views three letter agency URLs as having all the appeal of a trip to a virtual leper colony: https://www.zdnet.com/article/even-the-nsa-is-urging-windows...
Thanks for taking a bullet for the team on this one, Internet stranger.
Re: NSA Cybersecurity Advisory: Patch Remote Desktop Services on Legacy Windows
#13Who has the fear of visiting a URL owned by a three letter agency known for nefarious spying activities? I do! So here is a third party report for anyone else that views three letter agency URLs as having all the appeal of a trip to a virtual leper colony: https://www.zdnet.com/article/even-the-nsa-is-urging-windows...
I can almost picture the NSA staff meeting: "Let's bait Hacker News randos by issuing an advisory about a nearly internet-wide vulnerability that gives unrestricted access to Windows computers. Then, when they visit our website to learn more, we'll nab them!" Thanks for taking a bullet for the team on this one, Internet stranger.
Re: NSA Cybersecurity Advisory: Patch Remote Desktop Services on Legacy Windows
#14Who has the fear of visiting a URL owned by a three letter agency known for nefarious spying activities? I do! So here is a third party report for anyone else that views three letter agency URLs as having all the appeal of a trip to a virtual leper colony: https://www.zdnet.com/article/even-the-nsa-is-urging-windows...
Re: NSA Cybersecurity Advisory: Patch Remote Desktop Services on Legacy Windows
#15Who has the fear of visiting a URL owned by a three letter agency known for nefarious spying activities? I do! So here is a third party report for anyone else that views three letter agency URLs as having all the appeal of a trip to a virtual leper colony: https://www.zdnet.com/article/even-the-nsa-is-urging-windows...
I can almost picture the NSA staff meeting: "Let's bait Hacker News randos by issuing an advisory about a nearly internet-wide vulnerability that gives unrestricted access to Windows computers. Then, when they visit our website to learn more, we'll nab them!" Thanks for taking a bullet for the team on this one, Internet stranger.
Similarly, if a story is on a website owned by paranoid people with a track record of harm I would prefer to read a third party report. I don't believe I am alone in that.
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#16Re: NSA Cybersecurity Advisory: Patch Remote Desktop Services on Legacy Windows
#17Who has the fear of visiting a URL owned by a three letter agency known for nefarious spying activities? I do! So here is a third party report for anyone else that views three letter agency URLs as having all the appeal of a trip to a virtual leper colony: https://www.zdnet.com/article/even-the-nsa-is-urging-windows...
I can almost picture the NSA staff meeting: "Let's bait Hacker News randos by issuing an advisory about a nearly internet-wide vulnerability that gives unrestricted access to Windows computers. Then, when they visit our website to learn more, we'll nab them!" Thanks for taking a bullet for the team on this one, Internet stranger.
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#19I really wonder what the utility for that distribution form is, are there people printing these out? Or is there some requirement for them to generate a document ID that they could not get for plain web/HTML documents?
Re: NSA Cybersecurity Advisory: Patch Remote Desktop Services on Legacy Windows
#20The advisory links to https://www.nsa.gov/Portals/70/documents/what-we-do/cybersec... (PDF) I really wonder what the utility for that distribution form is, are there people printing these out? Or is there some requirement for them to generate a document ID that they could not get for plain web/HTML documents?