Malware-as-a-service

[Skybird]

https://www.askwoody.com/2017/ms-defcon-3-get-patched-and-brace-yourself-for-a-malware-as-a-service-future/

From bad to worse.

My recommended solution to deal with all this Windows-7 mess, sees its days counted. Which again leaves me wondering whether Microsoft has had a hand in what ShadowBrokers are doing - that ShadowBroker'S actions meet Microsoft's interests too perfectly and smoothly, should spring into your eyes and raise everybody's suspicion, after Microsoft's underhanded actions and displayed unscrupolousness of the past two years.

Migrate to a second platform that is free of anythign done by Microsfto, Google and the likes. Keep Windows only as a game launcher, and not one little tiny bit more. If that is what you can accept, you also have to accept that in the coming years your options to buy new games depending on hardware no longer allowed to run under W7, or that needs W10 for full functionality, will run thin. That is what made me stopping to buy new gaming hardware (racewheel) for Windows, or for flightsims, or anything.

Windows dies. So do no further investments for it. Save your money for better things.

[propbeanie]

My "favorite" line in that article is "Realize that we don’t know what information Microsoft collects on Win7 and 8.1 machines."

[Skybird]

^ Which means it is more than what is known and what Microsoft admits to collect, sorry to spoil your coup. In case of W10, even if you switch off all privacy-relevant stuff and tighten all options it offers to "seal" your Malware wanting to phone home, you nevertheless will need to accept that almost 2000 data items will be constantly transmitted and frequently called up. Thats what Miocrosoft does not tell you. But what has been demonstrated to be fact.

[STEED]

Smash up your PC's and Laptops and go back to the stone age, that will teach the B'stards. :03:

[Skybird]

This joke really needs a beard-reeling machine.

[STEED]

This joke really needs a beard-reeling machine. Sooner or later something big will happen and make these incidents look like a walk in the ball park.

[Rockin Robbins]

At least for the medium foreseeable future, Linux is the answer. Until the percentage of Linux users gets significant, 35% or so of computer users, you won't ba a target. Wannacry exploits Windows defects. It is absolutely harmless on a Linux system.

[Skybird]

Considering that over 50% of internet servers already run in Linux, I am quite certain that intelligence agencies and militaries already have a whole arsenal of digital WMDs prepared for being launched against Linux. They would not be worth their money if they would not have prepared them already.