Just a reminder that the reason why every computers are getting ransomed at the moment is because of your incompetent...

Just a reminder that the reason why every computers are getting ransomed at the moment is because of your incompetent US government, where the NSA, an agency tasked to protect the Americans from cyber attacks, decided to hold onto multiple zero-day exploits instead of patching them, resulting in huge shitfest that brought down businesses and even hospitals, and yet to be seen whether any ciritical infrastructures are to be hit or not.

All thanks to you cucks, meming 24/7 how about some fucking frog instead of doing something about your government over reach, which believe it or not, is mostly due to republican policies.

From the rest of the world, go fuck yourselves you fucking fat ass rednecks.

I would usually call you a fucking leaf but you're right man, it doesn't help that the fucking tools got released by the Shadow Brokers in response to Trump striking Syria for the totally not staged "chemical" attack.

To add on to that, supposedly a 2.0 of wanna cry came out that has no killswitch so the next few days will definitely have HAPPENING proportions.

>map of infections in pic related
>madagascar and greenland still uninfected
some things never change

>All thanks to you cucks
100% this.

america's corruption is entirely our fault for not doing anything about it for so long.

we will continue to do nothing. everyone's fucked.

Bump

>businesses and even hospitals

Hospitals seem to fall for ransomware more than anyone. Something to do with doctors being arrogant while not knowing shit about computers.

But no our government will do a totally awesome job running healthcare themselves....

The reason computers are getting hit is because they dont fucking update their software.

It was being spread using the new SMB godmode exploit that was leaked by the shadowbrokers.

Fucking update your software and you'd be fine.

to be fair though, they did get patched once they were leaked

people just didn't update

Wrong, the reason they get hit is because your NSA backdoors windows products to use them to enter into peoples shit, disregarding the impact of such practices. They are supposed to protect americans, instead they kept the bug a secret to exploit it, and obviously it has been discovered and misused. Its all on the NSA, whether they discovered it and didn't report it, or intentionally put the backdoor there. And the reason why people don't update their computers its because windows updates break them. Windows 10 broke my fps on video games ever since i updated to the anniversaary update.

>decided to hold onto multiple zero-day exploits instead of patching them,

microsoft didn't patch some old xp exploits. nobody should be running xp.

this could either be good or bad for msft stock. good - people upgrade bad - people be mad at them for not patching it sooner.

wrong.
NSA didnt discover it.
Feds buy their bugs from 3rd parties.
This all goes back to the 'responsible disclosure' argument.

>Windows 10 broke my fps on video games ever since i updated to the anniversaary update.
So you complain against NSA windows backdoors and then use windows? At least try to string together a coherent argument leaf.

Bingo.


And the NSA has been doing this since the 70s. If you think this is new you're dead fucking wrong

XP is still supported until 2019

Does pol know anything about computer security? lol

Because they've been strong armed into doing so. I know a TON of security researchers who have been approached prior to their defcon talks told to keep their mouth shut if they know what's good for them.

defcon?
You know defcon is a huge joke right? Its the reddit of security conferences

What, you think all these guys don't hangout at defcon and then scoot over to black hat? Lol dude get on my level

Moreover if you think defcon is a joke: that's what the fuck it started as retard.

defcon is for people who take SANS classes
blackhat is an expensive RSA conf

I'm running mint as main OS, use windows for bf3

Actually for this specific zero day, windows will be patching older versions of windows, including xp

>PATCHING BACKDOORS THAT COME IN HANDY WHEN YOUR REALLY NEED THEM

Why should the government be tasked with providing that private corporation with vulnerabilities? Why should the goverment tell a corporation selling the product they have a vulnerability? IS IT NOT THE JOB THE OF THE CORPORATION TO KNOW IF WHAT THEY ARE SELLING IS EXPLOITABLE?

Dude it's a week period of time where shutin securitcunts come to cut loose. I've seen more crazy shit in vegas during RSACon then just about anywhere else personally.

>windows is a huge backdoor
>uses canonical software
lol

Its not a zeroday
It was patched months ago faggot

I might be American, but I didn't tell the government to create the NSA. I didn't support the Patriot Act. I didn't tell them to act outside of our Constitution under color of law. They never cared about humanity outside of their own private interests. I'm learning Linux now in preparation for the day that Windows 7 becomes totally obsolete so I don't move on to OSX or Windows 10 so I am not entirely susceptible to these exploits.

shocking to see that fag leaf
p.s. not our job
p.p.s go hug more sandniggerz

>Le canonical meme
KYS faggot. I'm running linux mint, debian edition or LMDE. Let me guess its backdoored too. Please enlighten me on what fucking OS you're using dipshit.

you realize mint is not conical right you faggot?

Any software you use can be hacked. End of story.

If it's not sandboxed arch it's shit. Get over it cuck

You do realize mint is based on ubuntu right you faggot?

Why would I tell you what OS I use? Thats just bad opsec

I hope hackers bring it all down and expose the pedophiles for what they are.

Yeah I know you're right. I'm not giving them my money though so I'll stick with free and open-source software.

Pro tip: hackers generally don't give a fuck about CP

He uses bsd

Ya know, just thinking how lucky Australia is in a way, or internet is so shit that our security agency can't track anything other than autistic terrorists sending terrorist plots through Facebook.

Smash it all and live off the grid

This is gonna end up fucking up most of the whole world bro, I hope it was worth it

wasnt it discovered that the CIA was hacking into smart tvs and could in fact cause your smart car to veer off a cliff unexpectedly?

this shit is nothing.

You do realize that the problem with canonical is not ubuntu itself but unity. Linux mint doesn't use unity, and furthermore they have a debian based version. On top of that, canonical got a lot of bad rep for their search function and actually changed their way of doing. Go suck a dick, you don't know shit.

>could in fact cause your smart car to veer off a cliff
it is not a fact, just a possibility as of yet.

Easier said then done. I like having friends too much. Living in the woods without a digital connection or a wide social circle would drive me mad.

A fucking leaf

The problem is mint, ubuntu, and all the other faggot *nix children OS's all use closed source libraries.

Its no different than using Windows.

Excuses.

>Durr im gonna run windows xp even though microsoft isnt patching it anymore
>its the us government's fault i got hacked

>not using Windows and trolling whoever's watching what you're doing by always have hardcore midget bdsm porn running in a window

Funny because this was a HUGE argument when it first came up with the initial fork

XP is fine to use. Its supported until 2019. I would only recommend adding EMET.

plus add onto the fact that you are never truly off grid


>hello sir! im with the government! you havent paid your taxes in years and your property taxes are coming due! you never REALLY own the land, so pay up or mister police officer here will have a word with you

Says the random individual that is communicating to me through the internet.

haha, winfags and their silly exploits.

>ubuntu

catch up its no better than MS software

>Run windows xp
>Get hacked because the nsa had a backdoor in it
>Their own fault
No fuckface, if the NSA didn't put the backdoor in, they would of never been hacked. Windows 10 is also affected so your argument is invalid.

People don't patch shit because windows update breaks your system. You can have secure non-working syste, or you can stop updating the ccomputer and have it working. This is also one of the reason why some people still run old versions of windows, because it works, unlike the shit-in-a-box they call windows 10

The NSA (or Microsoft) didn't necessarily design a backdoor into Windows XP. The hackers hired by the NSA/federal government found a vulnerability that they simply refused to publicize in order to take advantage of it. Apple and Microsoft may intentionally leave and report vulnerabilities to the government in fact, but we'll likely never be able to confirm that with evidence. In all likelihood of course, this shit is just standard business practice for the above mentioned parties.

The job of the nsa is to protect the americans from exactly such vulnerabilities. They refused to alert microsoft and decided to instead exploit the vulnerability, and by doing so, had a direct role in what is happening right now. If they just did their fucking job instead of trying to spy on everyone illegally, there would be no bug to exploit. And the fact that the bug itself hasnt been discovered but was taken and was being exploited directly from the NSA is the reason why they should be held liable.

Yes they should be held liable, especially for this massive leak, but they won't be. As another user mentioned earlier in this thread, it is not the federal government's responsibility to report vulnerabilities in Microsoft's products to Microsoft. As ordinary citizens, we would hope that the NSA was transparent and had the interest of every single American at heart, but this is simply not the case. They look after their own interests. This is not convenient when it comes to international affairs or power struggles.

Source? Weren't they hacked? To intentionally release an advanced CIA hacking tool to protest Trump sounds absolutely absurd.

The problem was unpatched operating systems. The patch was released in Feb. In addition, most were discontinued operating systems.

Everyone who got fucked deserved it. Invest in IT and cyber security, stingy corporate and government fucks

This. If corporate data is so valuable they should have pen testers on the payroll 24/7

Microsoft knew about this problem. It was patched in March. It IS possible the NSA let Microsoft know

This cyberattck affected unpatched systems

This has nothing to do with Comey? Why did it coincide?

Aren't NSA/CIA/FBI at war with each other?

Is this retaliation?

Because the NSA is exactly made with the task to protect americans by making sure their communications are secure. Instead, they are doing the exact opposite, and abusing the vulnerabilities on top of that. It is because of idiots like you that they get away with it, because you somehow think that they should not be accountable to anyone.

I haven't looked into it myself but I can believe what you're saying. It doesn't mean there aren't other tricks the feds have tucked into their sleeves. I have some old programs that won't run on anything newer then Windows 8 and it really sucks to think I'll never be able to use them again despite having payed good money for them. Outdated operating systems shouldn't be used today in hospitals or corporate environments though that's for sure.

Christ, its like Pandemic II.