Lessons from last week’s cyberattack
The quote bombshell here, and what hasnt yet gotten much attention since sysadmins the world over are busy dealing with fallout, is that the NSA and therefore the US government is directly responsible for the current global cyber-carnage. We developed the capability, we chose to keep it unpatched, we tried to keep it secret, we lost control of it.<p>This has similarities in type, if not in horror, to the development and subsequent spread of nuclear weapons. When we lost control of those secrets, it was a BFD [0].<p>[0] <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_spies" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_spies</a>