US Government Fears Another Explosion Of The Ransomware Plague It Helped Create

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:

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.

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