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IT 'heroes' saved Maersk from NotPetya with ten-day reinstallation blitz

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The internet cannot support applications that rely on it?

"Noting that the internet was not designed to support the applications that now rely on it"

What total nonsense and pseudo technical sounding waffle. The Internet performs exactly as designed, it transfers packets from one end node to another end node. The problem relies solely on the "computers" connected at either end.

What would be of interest to your readers is what was the dollar value in costs to Maersk in down time and the expenditure spent on employing people to reinstall all eight thousand plus "systems" and what indemnification did the vendors of the software provide Maersk in the event they were victims of a hacking attack.

"Snabe plans to ensure Maersk .. turn its experience into a security stance that represents competitive advantage."

What you need to do is run your "computers" off of 3½ floppy disks with the write-protected shutter in the enabled position.

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