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Re:British Library cyber incident review [pdf] by mschuster91 on Friday March 08, 2024 @08:29AM (#39640834)
> No root cause. On other forums it is understood they were running very old and unpatched VMware os. Which is simply embarrassing and everybody within their IT team should be fired immediately for gross negligence.

The IT team most likely begged for years for funds to upgrade their infrastructure, but did not receive any of it. Public institutions are already short on money, but education has it even worse.

If anyone is to blame, it is the last British governments, who have focused their attention on Brexit and Ruanda crap instead of providing services for the citizens.

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Re:British Library cyber incident review [pdf] by hardlianotion on Friday March 08, 2024 @09:05AM (#39641143)
It's a government with huge civil service infrastructure. The people involved with Brexit and Rwanda miles away from this stuff. Willing to bet that in your counterfactual world lacking Brexit and Rwanda (and let's throw in, say, a Labour government), this would still not have been financed.
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