From: Wolf K <wolfmac@sympatico.ca>

On 2017-05-15 16:17, FredW wrote:
> On Mon, 15 May 2017 20:52:07 +0100, "Ant" <not@home.today> wrote:
>
>> "FredW" wrote:
>>> All those that replied have clearly no idea whatsoever of IT-matters.=

>>> They give only politically desirable answers (they think).
>>
>> Neither do the people running the affected networks and systems,
>> apparently. They should be fired.
>>
>>> And this massive attack of ransomware was caused by the NSA and the U=
SA.
>>
>> Not really. People (amd Microsoft) should have woken up in 2003 when
>> the Sever Mesage Block (SMB) software listening on port 445 was first
>> exploited by the Blaster worm. There is no reason for SMB to be
>> listening for incoming internet connections and no excuse for not
>> firewalling this port.
>
> Further reading showed me you are right.
>
> (ever more facts are appearing how this originated.)

=2E.. which support the conspiracy theory that the hole was deliberate, o=
r 
else knowledge of how to exploit it was deliberately withheld by the NSA.=


We live in interesting times. So who pronounced the curse?

-- 
Best,
Wolf K
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