<story><title>A Cyberattack &apos;the World Isn’t Ready For&apos;</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/22/technology/ransomware-attack-nsa-cyberweapons.html?hp&amp;action=click&amp;pgtype=Homepage&amp;clickSource=story-heading&amp;module=second-column-region&amp;region=top-news&amp;WT.nav=top-news</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zyxzevn</author><text>So we are investing dollars in NSA so they make tools that bring us damage? I think there should be a limit on how long they can keep their &amp;quot;secrets&amp;quot;. Snowden already showed that information can go outside, so any information will be leaked at some time. The society has much more to win when the software defects are repaired instead of used for hacking.&lt;p&gt;I think that all these NSA problems show bad management. They should be reorganized, or maybe even abandoned. They cost more than they deliver, and even costed us our privacy. Probably they are still breaking US and international laws on that. Breaking up NSA can allow the FBI and (open) security companies to take over the cybersecurity.&lt;p&gt;I suspect that we will soon have leaks of CIA tools too.  But thanks to wikileaks companies can prepare for these future problems.&lt;p&gt;We can go deeper into who got these tools and who is using them. Some may even argue that the CIA leaked the NSA tools to weaken the NSA. Or worse, that some in the NSA want to create cyber chaos to push for more control over the internet in the future.&lt;p&gt;The article mentions the popular political scapegoats, and as usual this is just speculation. To solve NSA&amp;#x27;s problem we have to request very concrete evidence, otherwise we are just being played with.&lt;p&gt;Article: &amp;gt; The Shadow Brokers resurfaced last month, promising a fresh load of N.S.A. attack tools, even offering to supply them for monthly paying subscribers — like a wine-of-the-month club for cyberweapon enthusiasts.&lt;p&gt;This shows how we are being played with. The NSA could already have published the security details of all leaked tools, so we could all have protected our computer systems. We could have prevented Wannacry.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nyolfen</author><text>&amp;gt;This shows how we are being played with. The NSA could already have published the security details of all leaked tools, so we could all have protected our computer systems. We could have prevented Wannacry.&lt;p&gt;NSA did exactly what you said and went to MS months before wcry hit, once it was clear what shadowbrokers had, in order to patch the vulnerability that wcry exploited: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;technet.microsoft.com&amp;#x2F;en-us&amp;#x2F;library&amp;#x2F;security&amp;#x2F;ms17-010.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;technet.microsoft.com&amp;#x2F;en-us&amp;#x2F;library&amp;#x2F;security&amp;#x2F;ms17-01...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;unfortunately, not everyone keeps their systems totally up to date for various reasons.</text></comment>
<story><title>A Cyberattack &apos;the World Isn’t Ready For&apos;</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/22/technology/ransomware-attack-nsa-cyberweapons.html?hp&amp;action=click&amp;pgtype=Homepage&amp;clickSource=story-heading&amp;module=second-column-region&amp;region=top-news&amp;WT.nav=top-news</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zyxzevn</author><text>So we are investing dollars in NSA so they make tools that bring us damage? I think there should be a limit on how long they can keep their &amp;quot;secrets&amp;quot;. Snowden already showed that information can go outside, so any information will be leaked at some time. The society has much more to win when the software defects are repaired instead of used for hacking.&lt;p&gt;I think that all these NSA problems show bad management. They should be reorganized, or maybe even abandoned. They cost more than they deliver, and even costed us our privacy. Probably they are still breaking US and international laws on that. Breaking up NSA can allow the FBI and (open) security companies to take over the cybersecurity.&lt;p&gt;I suspect that we will soon have leaks of CIA tools too.  But thanks to wikileaks companies can prepare for these future problems.&lt;p&gt;We can go deeper into who got these tools and who is using them. Some may even argue that the CIA leaked the NSA tools to weaken the NSA. Or worse, that some in the NSA want to create cyber chaos to push for more control over the internet in the future.&lt;p&gt;The article mentions the popular political scapegoats, and as usual this is just speculation. To solve NSA&amp;#x27;s problem we have to request very concrete evidence, otherwise we are just being played with.&lt;p&gt;Article: &amp;gt; The Shadow Brokers resurfaced last month, promising a fresh load of N.S.A. attack tools, even offering to supply them for monthly paying subscribers — like a wine-of-the-month club for cyberweapon enthusiasts.&lt;p&gt;This shows how we are being played with. The NSA could already have published the security details of all leaked tools, so we could all have protected our computer systems. We could have prevented Wannacry.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wybiral</author><text>&amp;gt; Some may even argue that the CIA leaked the NSA tools to weaken the NSA. Or worse, that some in the NSA want to create cyber chaos to push for more control over the internet in the future.&lt;p&gt;Some may argue a lot of things that may or may not be true.&lt;p&gt;This will probably always be an issue so long as there are classified operations... Everyone who isn&amp;#x27;t privy will have their own interpretation of what really happened.</text></comment>