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Re:US Government Fears Another Explosion Of The Ransomware P... by dang on Monday May 15, 2017 @04:48AM (#14340103)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14340102

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14339038 and marked it off-topic.

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Re:US Government Fears Another Explosion Of The Ransomware P... by andrewflnr on Monday May 15, 2017 @01:04AM (#14339279)
There's no taboo, there's just not enough evidence to rule out incompetence.
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Re:US Government Fears Another Explosion Of The Ransomware P... by qb45 on Monday May 15, 2017 @02:29AM (#14339564)
Projects the size of Windows may easily contain enough "organic" bugs to keep all the NSAs of the world happy without adding anything new.

However, backdooring of security and cryptographic products by the NSA and others is a thing:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14335730

There is no hard proof that NSA did any of these backdoors, but they clearly do something of this kind, given data in the last link.

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Re:US Government Fears Another Explosion Of The Ransomware P... by ben-schaaf on Monday May 15, 2017 @01:36AM (#14339383)
Hanlon's Razer[0] seems appropriate here.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor

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Re:US Government Fears Another Explosion Of The Ransomware P... by golergka on Monday May 15, 2017 @02:56AM (#14339690)
> But I really just don't believe that's why Windows security is just swiss cheese sealed off with duct tape.

If you're basing your argument solely on what you, personally, believe or don't believe in, can you provide some credentials to back up your status as a security expert? Or, at the very least, OS developer?

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Re:US Government Fears Another Explosion Of The Ransomware P... by tritosomal on Monday May 15, 2017 @12:45AM (#14339219)
Oh dude, downvotes on Hacker News... double-plus-ungood!

Much disdain! Such taboo!

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Re:US Government Fears Another Explosion Of The Ransomware P... by dang on Monday May 15, 2017 @04:48AM (#14340102)
We've banned these accounts for violating the HN guidelines and for using multiple accounts abusively in the same thread.
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Re:US Government Fears Another Explosion Of The Ransomware P... by otempomores on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @01:27AM (#14355879)
Eh is there a bigger taboo on a claiming to be open minded comunity then "i dont want this discussed - i want this censored by the vox populi"
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