YOU WENT THERE (ignores enough to run for president) On May 15, 2017 1:48:51 AM PDT, Randy Bush <ra...@psg.com> wrote: >> Or BSD, or anything but Windows. Anyone running Microsoft products >> is quite clearly an unprofessional, unethical moron and fully >deserves >> all the pain they get -- including being sued into oblivion by their >> customers and clients for their obvious incompetence and negligence. > >aside from being grossly rude, hyperbolic, and uninteligent, this rant >ignores reality enough to make you a viable presidential candidate. > >80% of desk/laptops run windows. get over it. windows is embedded in >many systems which will be hard to update in an hour or 100 hours. and >rude ranting is not doing one micron to help deal with it. > >embedded systems are very hard to update, think special drivers, kinky >mods, ... aside from the long softdev time, how much time do you think >QA will take for moving a piece of medical equipment from xp to win10, >let alone bsd? and the state of the bsd update process is not >something >to describe in polite company. > >we have a vulnerable chain from weak software (which is improving, and >msoft has been in the lead there for a decade), to nsa/cia not >disclosing, to people choosing or having to run old versions (of >whatever (and linux/bsd are not immune) for financial or technical >reasons, to the conservative or lazy logistics of patching. we can try >to improve things at each link. but this is gonna be slow. > >though this ransomware attack is not really that much larger than other >attacks in the past (and the future is not cheering), at least it has >reached the front pages and maybe people will patch more and vendors >will issue more/better updates. but, as @zeynep says, the lack of >liability along the chain above allows bad practices to continue. > >in the meantime, backup, backup and take it offline so it does not get >encrypted for you, patch, turn off unnecessary services/options, rinse >repeat. and try to promote prudent use among friends, family, and >workplace. > >randy
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