dagblog - Comments for "In Baltimore and Beyond, a Stolen N.S.A. Tool Wreaks Havoc" http://dagblog.com/link/baltimore-and-beyond-stolen-nsa-tool-wreaks-havoc-28211 Comments for "In Baltimore and Beyond, a Stolen N.S.A. Tool Wreaks Havoc" en The NSA certainly has some http://dagblog.com/comment/268097#comment-268097 <a id="comment-268097"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/link/baltimore-and-beyond-stolen-nsa-tool-wreaks-havoc-28211">In Baltimore and Beyond, a Stolen N.S.A. Tool Wreaks Havoc</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>The NSA certainly has some responsibility for creating the hacking tools. But they didn't create the vulnerability. They simply found it and took advantage of it.</p> <p>And the NSA certainly has some responsibility for losing the tool. But when it was lost they informed Microsoft and Microsoft patched the flaw. People need to download the patch or Microsoft needs to create a better system for fixing their mistakes.Governments, hospitals, and other businesses should have a tech person on staff to keep up with that.</p> <p>Microsoft, and all the big 5 internet companies, are making billions in profits and they need to create a better product and fix their mistakes.</p> </div></div></div> Sun, 26 May 2019 02:13:17 +0000 ocean-kat comment 268097 at http://dagblog.com An illustration from the http://dagblog.com/comment/268096#comment-268096 <a id="comment-268096"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/link/baltimore-and-beyond-stolen-nsa-tool-wreaks-havoc-28211">In Baltimore and Beyond, a Stolen N.S.A. Tool Wreaks Havoc</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>An illustration from the article:</p> <figure class="image"><img alt="" height="321" src="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2019/05/25/multimedia/25nsa-03/merlin_155370108_694f5d1b-aed5-4e46-b409-a2ae6aff3f13-jumbo.jpg?quality=90&amp;auto=webp" width="500" /><figcaption>Caption<em>: On May 7, city workers in Baltimore had their computers frozen by hackers.<br /> Officials have refused to pay the $100,000 ransom</em></figcaption></figure><p>And Shane's second tweet about the article:</p> <p> </p><div class="media_embed"> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en" height="" width=""> <p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Remarkable that NSA has not been held to public account over this ongoing Shadow Brokers disaster. The agency's position is that it's all too secret to discuss -- which is convenient for avoiding responsibility.</p> — Scott Shane (@ScottShaneNYT) <a href="https://twitter.com/ScottShaneNYT/status/1132323420786634752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 25, 2019</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" height="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" width=""></script></div> </div></div></div> Sun, 26 May 2019 01:06:54 +0000 artappraiser comment 268096 at http://dagblog.com