<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 9:21 AM, Satish Babu <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sb.inapp@gmail.com" target="_blank">sb.inapp@gmail.com</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"><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><span class="gmail-HOEnZb"></span><br></div></blockquote></div><br><div class="gmail_extra">+1 Satish . <br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Most
interesting part in current news reports is many media houses naming
just Shadow brokers as Vulnerability origin(instead of pointing fingers at NSA & MS), which is exploited now by this Ransomware <br><br>This
incident clearly demonstrates the after effects of weakening digital
security practices for Law enforcement agencies. Any such
weakening/back doors impacts human rights and digital security in a
increasingly digitalized world. There is an urgency to have a honest
global discussions on impacts of security weakening/ backdoors for govts
. <br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Anivar<br></div><a href="https://anivar.net" target="_blank">https://anivar.net</a></div></div>