Cyberattacks in 12 Nations Said to Use Leaked N.S.A. Hacking Tool

Post by edkennedy » Sat, May 13, 2017, 12:45 AM UTC

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Thank God for backups! And thank you for making sure people make backups. My mother is in a similar situation. She is an elementary school teacher, and has little time for unrelated endeavors like this. What time she does have, is spent in the garden, as it should be. Nevertheless, we are now seeing that the time-cost of closed source software, is greater than that of open-source software. My solution has been to pre…

How quickly some forget heartbleed. The solution to malware is obscurity. Have an OS that no one wants to break into, and you won't be broken into.

Post by linkregister » Sat, May 13, 2017, 12:49 AM UTC

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Well this justifies MS's decision for forced updates in Win10. Not that I like it, just saying.

> Well this justifies MS's decision for forced updates in Win10. Not that I like it, just saying. Unfortunately, I think the active hours period cannot be set to more than twelve hours, which is less than the time required for some surgical interventions. I can almost imagine it: OK everyone, ten-minute break while Windows installs its updates, this guy who's been on life support for the last ten hours can wait a lit…

Post by linkregister » Sat, May 13, 2017, 12:54 AM UTC

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I think this is an excellent example that we can all reference the next time someone says that governments should be allowed to have backdoors to encryption etc. This shows that no agency is immune from leaks and when these tools fall into the wrong hands the results are truly catastrophic.

Post by cortesoft » Sat, May 13, 2017, 1:02 AM UTC

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What would 'being smart' about using these services mean? It is pretty difficult to get through life in the modern age without using email for sensitive documents (or at least without using ACCESS to your email as a way to gain access to sensitive services, eg password reset emails, proof of ownership, etc) Since email in the modern world has this type of importance, what should I do? If you say gmail can't protect t…

Just make sure whatever email provider you use offers IMAP and use a client like Thunderbird to keep a local copy in sync. Back that up somewhere safe and you're fine. If you need good, fast search, use something like X1.

Post by nl » Sat, May 13, 2017, 1:09 AM UTC

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To quote Göring, > Göring: Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country. Patriotism is both a wonderful and terrible thing, and it is made worse by feari…

> Patriotism is both a wonderful and terrible thing I found that hypothesis widely accepted, without so much for it. Patriotism fuses core values like freedom or solidarity with a flag. That's why it is easier to pervert. Patriotism tells people that because there are people born in the same line limits that you, you should be proud of what they do, and you should help them first. Patriotism distorts history. > "Four…