<div dir="auto">As a advocate of FOSS for over two decades, I would say that the real culprit is the lack of diversity on the Desktop. <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Having said that, I'd recommend that whoever can do so should move into FOSS, which I find is inherently more secure (I was an MS-DOS and Windows programmer from the late 80s, and moved to Linux in the late 90s). I realize that my statement is contentious, but certainly not new (we gave been arguing this for the last 20 years).</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Having over 80% of systems in a single OS makes the enterprise very vulnerable, considering that *all* software contains inadvertent or deliberate bugs/features such as backdoors (in this case, apparently put there by MS for NSA). </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">While backups are a great idea, pls note that backups on infected systems may themselves be infected and/or encrypted.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I don't see any way to 'eliminate' these kind of threats, but we can perhaps learn to manage them.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">satish</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 15 May 2017 09:06, "Olévié Kouami" <<a href="mailto:olivierkouami@gmail.com">olivierkouami@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi !<br><div>+1 @Dorothy.<br></div><div>The place of FOSS is certainly here.<br></div><div>Warm regards<br></div><div>-Olevie-<br><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2017-05-15 2:23 GMT+01:00 Joly MacFie <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:joly@punkcast.com" target="_blank">joly@punkcast.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Link truncated, try <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/13/opinion/the-world-is-getting-hacked-why-dont-we-do-more-to-stop-it.html" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0<wbr>5/13/opinion/the-world-is-gett<wbr>ing-hacked-why-dont-we-do-more<wbr>-to-stop-it.html</a></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><span><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 1:44 PM, Stephanie Perrin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stephanie.perrin@mail.utoronto.ca" target="_blank">stephanie.perrin@mail.utoront<wbr>o.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><p><font size="+1"><font face="Lucida Grande">Good article in the NYT
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