Massive Ransomware goes global

Skybird · 05-13-17, 01:30 PM

Microsoft is a company falling under US laws and thus cannot resist demands by the US giovenrment to build backdoors into the software that can be used by US services to gain access to said systems - may it be for business espionage, political spionage, crime fighting or preparing an act of cyberwarfare via the public and private sector. Evertyhing is possible. The NSA has confirmed officially that it is its policy to gain the ability to access any existing comoputer system in the world,. no matter hwere and no matter by whom it is owned and used, and for what. US companies are prohibited by US laws to make knownj to the poublic that the government may have approached them and ordered them to assist in surveillance or infiltration of comnpouters and networks in the Us and internatiuonally. The legal threats for violating this law and breaking the silence, start with 5 years in prison. This means whenever some CEO of Apple or Microsoft proudly explains to the mikes that his company refused to cooperate with the giovenrment, this staement you muist rate as "worth nothing", because if he would tell something else, and it is true, he/she would be in serious troubles already. Such statements thus are meaningless.

The biggest security risk in all this thus is having Microsoft software (or Google or Apple) running on your hardware, no matter whether you are private, official, business, public sector and service or whatever.

Again: the biggest problem, the biggest security problem here is Microsoft and using Microsoft software - of any kind. The advise is to not use software and service and IT structures of ANY US company, or any international company having offices in the US territories.

Robbins got what I am pointing at. But the naivety of all you others is breathtaking. Its the year 2017 - have you all stopped living 15 years ago already, have you frozen your look on the world and things back then...??? The digital world is a warzone, and the war is hot. And organised crime is one of the smaller worries you should be concerned about. States and their services and secret policies and laws are far more dangerous.

Stockmarket insiders since years say that they take it for granted that stockmarket'S IT structures get attacked and used for manipulation since long, not so much for stelaing money, but for hurting certain hostile nations or hostile parties, actors, companies. This can and I am certain is beign done on behalf of stabilizing the dysfunctional internatiponbal money order and ecponoimic order, too. You can destabulise hostile natiosn by attacking it s social seucrity system when damaging them by stockmarket manipulation. You can manipulate powergrids and energy consummation levels to inbcrease the costs a nation has to pay for prodividng energy, you can unsettle the poublic by manipoulating it, the economic framework in which it lives, the costs the private man has to pay for everyday needs of life. You can give your own companies advanatges by telliung them info on what the companies on other coutnries are up to in negotiations and stratgeic polanning. And so forth. You can bring down traffic systems, delay information distribution for suzpporting of preparing other hostile action asnd to derlay the target naiton'S reaction. You can erode public trust and chnage the general climate in a nation ba attacking healthcare systenms. And so on and on and on. The possibilities are endless.

Becasue the big thing is: if all and evertyhing is digital, then all and evertyhing is available as a taregt from everywhere int rhe world and for anyone in the world. If oyu have your money in a safe in your flat, somebody may break into your house and try to steal it. But if you are forced to have it on your bankign account as digital currency, then you are available not just for thieves in your local vicitnity, but for ever yhacker ion the whole damn globe. Everybody becomes a target for everbody else, from anywhere and for just any purpose. You can even be turned into a wepaon to damage others, woith9out your knowledge, or with you knopwing and just not being able to prevent it.

That is why I am against this totally naive optimism and wanted opportunistic laissez-faire attitude regarding unlimited, undiscriminatory digitalization. The way it is done now and gets propagated by interest businesses, is not cool. It simply is stupid, and ignorrant. Tinfoil hat conspiration theories have nothing to do with it. Do not call me paranoid when you have jumped out of the window in 10th floor becasue you saw your friend grinning and doing it right before you, and then hear me yelling you better should try to get a hold before impacting on the ground. That is no conspiration theory and no paranoia - that is sound advice against the odds.

05-13-17, 01:30 PM	#15
Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 40,523 Downloads: 9 Uploads: 0	Microsoft is a company falling under US laws and thus cannot resist demands by the US giovenrment to build backdoors into the software that can be used by US services to gain access to said systems - may it be for business espionage, political spionage, crime fighting or preparing an act of cyberwarfare via the public and private sector. Evertyhing is possible. The NSA has confirmed officially that it is its policy to gain the ability to access any existing comoputer system in the world,. no matter hwere and no matter by whom it is owned and used, and for what. US companies are prohibited by US laws to make knownj to the poublic that the government may have approached them and ordered them to assist in surveillance or infiltration of comnpouters and networks in the Us and internatiuonally. The legal threats for violating this law and breaking the silence, start with 5 years in prison. This means whenever some CEO of Apple or Microsoft proudly explains to the mikes that his company refused to cooperate with the giovenrment, this staement you muist rate as "worth nothing", because if he would tell something else, and it is true, he/she would be in serious troubles already. Such statements thus are meaningless. The biggest security risk in all this thus is having Microsoft software (or Google or Apple) running on your hardware, no matter whether you are private, official, business, public sector and service or whatever. Again: the biggest problem, the biggest security problem here is Microsoft and using Microsoft software - of any kind. The advise is to not use software and service and IT structures of ANY US company, or any international company having offices in the US territories. Robbins got what I am pointing at. But the naivety of all you others is breathtaking. Its the year 2017 - have you all stopped living 15 years ago already, have you frozen your look on the world and things back then...??? The digital world is a warzone, and the war is hot. And organised crime is one of the smaller worries you should be concerned about. States and their services and secret policies and laws are far more dangerous. Stockmarket insiders since years say that they take it for granted that stockmarket'S IT structures get attacked and used for manipulation since long, not so much for stelaing money, but for hurting certain hostile nations or hostile parties, actors, companies. This can and I am certain is beign done on behalf of stabilizing the dysfunctional internatiponbal money order and ecponoimic order, too. You can destabulise hostile natiosn by attacking it s social seucrity system when damaging them by stockmarket manipulation. You can manipulate powergrids and energy consummation levels to inbcrease the costs a nation has to pay for prodividng energy, you can unsettle the poublic by manipoulating it, the economic framework in which it lives, the costs the private man has to pay for everyday needs of life. You can give your own companies advanatges by telliung them info on what the companies on other coutnries are up to in negotiations and stratgeic polanning. And so forth. You can bring down traffic systems, delay information distribution for suzpporting of preparing other hostile action asnd to derlay the target naiton'S reaction. You can erode public trust and chnage the general climate in a nation ba attacking healthcare systenms. And so on and on and on. The possibilities are endless. Becasue the big thing is: if all and evertyhing is digital, then all and evertyhing is available as a taregt from everywhere int rhe world and for anyone in the world. If oyu have your money in a safe in your flat, somebody may break into your house and try to steal it. But if you are forced to have it on your bankign account as digital currency, then you are available not just for thieves in your local vicitnity, but for ever yhacker ion the whole damn globe. Everybody becomes a target for everbody else, from anywhere and for just any purpose. You can even be turned into a wepaon to damage others, woith9out your knowledge, or with you knopwing and just not being able to prevent it. That is why I am against this totally naive optimism and wanted opportunistic laissez-faire attitude regarding unlimited, undiscriminatory digitalization. The way it is done now and gets propagated by interest businesses, is not cool. It simply is stupid, and ignorrant. Tinfoil hat conspiration theories have nothing to do with it. Do not call me paranoid when you have jumped out of the window in 10th floor becasue you saw your friend grinning and doing it right before you, and then hear me yelling you better should try to get a hold before impacting on the ground. That is no conspiration theory and no paranoia - that is sound advice against the odds. __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert. Last edited by Skybird; 05-13-17 at 01:46 PM.