I agree With Satish point on the use of Open Source but will also point to Dorothy's point raised that "<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:14px">since many of the softwares being used are available in totally open source versions should governments not be making use of these to developed customised solutions that will reduce their vulnerability to these kind of blanket attacks."</span><div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br></div></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">In this regard awareness of open source softwares needs to be created at all level.</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Regards</div><div><span style="font-size:15px"><br></span><br>On Monday, May 15, 2017, Satish Babu <<a href="mailto:sb.inapp@gmail.com">sb.inapp@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;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><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="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','olivierkouami@gmail.com');" target="_blank">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="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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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