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Everything you need to know about the Petya, er, NotPetya nasty trashing PCs worldwide

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Re: The real blame goes to..

But the way I see it, the true people to blame is in fact the Americans, more specifically, the NSA.

The problem I have with this blame attribution, is it isn't quite true, all it would have done is meant us having this discussion X years ago as companies failed to apply the patches and malware skiddies reverse engineered them enough to exploit the vulnerabilities.

Worryingly (because I am strongly against harbouring vulnerabilities), it could be argued that the NSA protected the business world by keeping it a secret. This chaos never happened as a result of a parallel discovery, it was only after Shadowbrokers popped the NSA and released the files. If they had kept them secret properly, this wouldn't have happened.

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