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Indian Government Breached, Massive Amount of Critical Vulnerabilities

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Re: Indian Government Breached, Massive Amount of Critical Vulnerabilities

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post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And the paragraph below the one you linked... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_notation#Engineerin... is directly showing exactly the mode I'm using :)

Oh, I get it and see what’s happening. Kinda careless of me to miss it. Thanks for pointing it out.

I can see how it’s not obvious if you never learnt it, but especially in when working with the SI it’s incredibly useful and makes many hidden relationships quickly obvious.

Re: Indian Government Breached, Massive Amount of Critical Vulnerabilities

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I'd wager they just ran pccleanupscan on their xp boxes for the first tine since 2004 and got a shock, I guess the bulk of it was installed within the last 16 years. They probably had 90% of that malware for 15 years by now. You know how these skits go.

Re: Indian Government Breached, Massive Amount of Critical Vulnerabilities

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If they care, as they claim, about the consequences for the indian public, why did they not disclose this less publicly? They think two weeks is a long time but perhaps the Indian government departments concerned don't immediately have the right sorts of people available to fix all these software problems in two weeks?

Very few large organisations, and zero distributed ones like a collection of multiple government departments, can turn around a massive collection of security fixes in 2 weeks.

I believe Google's Security team usually gives vendors 90 days before they go public.

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