Tim Cook’s refusal to help FBI hack iPhone is validated by ‘WannaCry’ attack

Re:Tim Cook’s refusal to help FBI hack iPhone is validated b... by hermitdev on Monday May 15, 2017 @04:35PM (#14344890)

How do you propose to solve the conundrum of this vulnerability is so bad, MS needs to release a fix, even for unsupported OSes, and get people still running those unsupported OSes to install the fix without disclosing there's a critical issue?

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Re:Tim Cook’s refusal to help FBI hack iPhone is validated b... by qb45 on Tuesday May 16, 2017 @01:40AM (#14347603)

I'm not saying they shouldn't be disclosing that the patch is critical, I said that in the case of ancient bugs affecting all versions of Windows they should release all patches at the same time.

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Re:Tim Cook’s refusal to help FBI hack iPhone is validated b... by hermitdev on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @11:07PM (#14415040)

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that what they did? Didn't they do it on the usual patch Tuesday?

I don't have any old versions of Windows installed, so I truly don't know how it rolled out there.

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Re:Tim Cook’s refusal to help FBI hack iPhone is validated b... by qb45 on Thursday May 25, 2017 @07:35AM (#14416660)

Wow, that's an old post. For currently supported versions I believe they released all patches at the same time, but XP was a problem because users without extended support contracts were left vulnerable which facilitated spread of WannaCry until they pushed updates to everyone. It's Microsoft's policy not to release fixes for unsupported versions to the public (this was an exception) and it leads to this kind of problems.

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