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The World Is Getting Hacked. Why Don’t We Do More to Stop It?

26 points by thesagan 9y ago

louithethrid 9y ago
Cause the users dont know what they are actually buying. They go for superficial signs of quality - like weigth, design, surfacepolishing and nice UI. Security of a object is a thing you can only evaluate the day it turns around and snaps at you. Now the default american solution for this, would be to have a "Late-Adopter" plugin, allowing to install "Additional" Gated-Comunity-Security for the rich - and let the mob become one huge botnet, held back by aggressive campaigns of bricking whole device classes remote should they be a threat to the "devices" in the better neighbourhoods. Unfortunatly the rest of the world is either too poor or unwilling to follow this model, which means we are going to see a regulated, securty TÜV checked model in europe and japan, state regulated devices in china & russia - and a wild west everywhere else.
fit2rule 9y ago
I would say the reason the world is getting hacked is quite simple: OS vendors are asleep at the wheel. Instead of actually improving their OS platforms, they're instead turning them into web browsers and game engines - while all the vital services that a modern OS should provide are being ignored in the rush for control. Take for example, the Fappening. This was possible because iCloud. iCloud is only necessary - like Dropbox and other services like it - because OS vendors decided they didn't want people to have control over their content, using their local computers - that it was 'easier' to provide servers dedicated to the purpose, than to actually add dedicated file sharing to the individuals' computers. (There are no really good reasons why your modern PC can't serve its own content - especially in this era of bandwidth and monster CPU power. We hosted the 90's Internet on far less powerful computers than your average mobile phone, with less bandwidth too.. the point is, the protocols.) So I honestly think that OS vendors need to be forced back behind the wheel to make our computers better, and the "network is the computer" business model needs to die. This was always a terrible idea, formed on the basis of an accountants wet dream, and should be forgotten as soon as possible. Instead, lets build better computers, simple as that. Computers that are actually safe to use because they've been designed that way, from the get-go. The cloud must die.
- geocar 9y ago
  How do you force them back to the wheel?
  - fit2rule 9y ago
    The same way you handle every 'new' world order, of course .. you build another one right on top. i.e. IPFS, Akasha, Ethereum, etc. These need to become first-class services in a default OS install. Then, maybe, we'll start evolving again ..
- Buge 9y ago
  Wanting smartphone providers to provide less cloud backups is an interesting suggestion, considering I usually hear the exact opposite. Usually in the context of travelers being forced to give up their phone password at the airport there are suggestions that people wipe their phone before leaving then restore after arriving. Then there are complaints that current smartphones make this too difficult.
gaius 9y ago
To howls of outrage, I have suggested to several companies that we simply disconnect from the public Internet. People programmed before cut-and-paste-from-SO was a thing after all. Obviously the web servers in the DC need to be accessible but the desktops in the office, or the critical bits of infra like DB, file servers and so on, nope. Anyone who wants to surf can easily do so on their personal smartphone with no risk to corporate systems. No one has ever been able to put together a coherent rebuttal to my proposal, yet still the PCs remain connected and still people click things they shouldn't...
- fit2rule 9y ago
  > People programmed before cut-and-paste-from-SO was a thing after all. I've always considered SO to be more a sign of devolution than anything else. It hasn't produced better programmers - just more programmers. Is that better?
  - drinchev 9y ago
    SO, although can be misused via copy & paste to production, is one of the greatest productivity boost I've ever had ( I'm 15+ years of experience ). Sure I remember having lots of fun with Turbo Pascal and paper books, as well as Perl and `man perlre`, but nevertheless there is always one weird error that will cost you half a day of debugging, which nowadays is replaced with 5 minutes googling. SO community are doing fine job with preventing bad code left without the warnings, but anyway I think SO delivered more to programming than it actually took.
    - fit2rule 9y ago
      I think the SO mentality leads to lazy developers who depend too much on the wisdom of others and don't do enough to push their own forward. Too many times I've seen "tech departments" sitting around, incapable of doing anything productive, because "the internet is down". This is a real issue, and I wish it got a bit more attention from the cognescenti .. we are producing generations of robotic developers who can't get anything done without hand-holding...
  - 9y ago
roadbeats 9y ago
> ...started, as it often does, with a defect in software, a bug. It all started with poor ethics. Every single version of Microsoft Windows have intentionally left backdoors for NSA and some hackers knew how to use it. This is like you pay some money and buy a house, but the previous owner keeps backup keys to watch you. And some others get the backup keys, kick you out of your own home unless you pay them. This is such a shame for Microsoft, NSA and American government. People trusted Microsoft products and purchased them, in return, Microsoft wanted more than money; they wanted to spy them for their ideological goals.
- Buge 9y ago
  >Every single version of Microsoft Windows have intentionally left backdoors for NSA and some hackers knew how to use it. Is there any proof of this?
  - roadbeats 9y ago
    Have you followed the news at all ?
    - deleted 9y ago
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    - Buge 9y ago
      I have somewhat. I don't recall hearing "every single version of Microsoft Windows have intentionally left backdoors for NSA".
      - roadbeats 9y ago
        For last 15 years Microsoft keeps same "bug" in their every single operating system, even after rewriting it bunch of times. Noone except NSA knew about this bug until their tools got leaked, for 15 years. Can you believe it ? Somehow, only NSA discovered and used this bug. And you're gonna sit in your chair and ask for proof. People like you easily get manipulated by shit organizations like CIA and Microsoft because they can get proof of the color of your poop, unlike me. I don't have a proof, but just use your critical thinking skills. If you got any.
geocar 9y ago
The world gets hacked because programmers make mistakes, and their management cannot evaluate those mistakes -- if only for no other reason that sometimes it isn't even obvious they made a mistake until a couple years later. Users have been fooled: Turn it off and on, is a reasonable and well-known troubleshooting guide, but nobody blames the software vendor. If I'm on the phone with a company and they tell me to turn it off and on, I can't even point out "so you sent me something defective?" this is normal folks. Maybe we need to teach programming younger and younger -- and it'll take two or three generations to become common enough that management will actually understand what I'm doing. Or maybe we need awareness campaigns to keep users from putting up with shit experiences! Or maybe someone has some other idea, but the major barrier exists: We don't know how to program computers, and saying that out loud makes a lot of people with the job-title (or description) of programmer clam right up.
- sfilargi 9y ago
  You are dead wrong in everything. To start with, your analogy is bad. You cannot compare psychical items with software. When you buy a car do you expect it to run and last forever? Software does, so you can see immediately that it's not a good analogy. Large systems are extremely complex but even so we have process, tools and methods to build reliable, verifiable and bug free code. What is stopping us from using them for every piece of software is the cost. Consumers are happy with the status quo of quality/cost.
  - geocar 9y ago
    > Consumers are happy with the status quo of quality/cost. Consumers cannot understand the cost because they are not programmers. I don't understand the rest of your post. I'm not making an analogy to any psychical [sic?] items, physical items, or any other kinds of items.
    - qb45 9y ago
      Maybe not exactly "cannot", but they often don't because the really big costs of shit software are rarely paid and to many users it hasn't happened yet, so it is easy to miss them until you find all of your files encrypted by ransomware and suddenly need to figure out this new bitcoin thing.
drinchev 9y ago
Hopefully governments will one day take GNU/Linux based OS & Software. I know, I know ... Linux for Desktop is hard, but it seems like making exploits are harder than doing the same for Windows ( maybe hacker focus is on windows, who knows. ). Anyway money equation I think is quite simple : Why buy Windows, when you can use Linux and buy backup infrastructure.
- golergka 9y ago
  Why would anyone spend effort to develop ransomware to target OS that is used mostly on servers, by computer professionals and enthusiasts, and in organizations that are managed by admins that are willing to put extra work to support not-standard solution?
  - yorwba 9y ago
    To collect a ransom from the corporations that depend on these servers, and from those well-paid computer professionals?
    - TeMPOraL 9y ago
      Not worth the effort, as end-user systems offer more gain (and the same corporations you mention also need those end-user systems for their employees to do their work).
- gaius 9y ago
  The recent attack on the NHS targeted Windows XP. I dare you to run a Linux distro from 2001 and tell me its secure from modern attacks.
  - lightedman 9y ago
    I run a distro from 1998, it's entirely secure as it has zero network access except via serial port to the CNC it controls.
    - 9y ago
a_imho 9y ago
There is not enough incentive to do so, carrot or stick.
wwwigham 9y ago
The article states this: > The money they made from these customers hasn’t expired; neither has their responsibility to fix defects. This is wrong. We don't ask for mandatory lifetime guarantees in any other industry I'm aware of, and perhaps more importantly, much of what is done in the field wouldn't be possible if it did (could you imagine having to continue to maintain an IE5 webpage for another twenty years?). It goes on: > In its defense, Microsoft probably could point out that its operating systems have come a long way in security since Windows XP, and it has spent a lot of money updating old software, even above industry norms. However, industry norms are lousy to horrible, and it is reasonable to expect a company with a dominant market position, that made so much money selling software that runs critical infrastructure, to do more. If I buy a toaster it comes with a one year warranty, maybe. A nice car might come with a five year or two hundred thousand mile limited warranty. Microsoft sold a product at a fraction of that cost and supported it, unconditionally, for 8 years. 8. And they supported it for five more after that with appropriate arrangements with enterprises (and after a select few enterprises who somehow concluded that paying some engineering salaries at Microsoft for dedicated support was cheaper than upgrading). That's a 13+ year lifetime of support on what was an $80 a license product. Industry norms can only be "horrible" insofar as there's only been a serious industry for 30 years... And XP was supported for half of it (man, I suddenly feel old). My point is that there is no world in which the "cash-strapped National Health Service" is not the primary entity which was grossly negligent in its maintenance of critical infrastructure. Stepping back and looking at the article as a whole and less at specific inflammatory parts, it is, well, filled with inflammatory parts. It starts as a thin attack piece on Microsoft for being slow to provide free support for a 16 year old product, offhandedly references IoT for some added scare factor, then starts calling for action (from both corporate and government actors) without any serious discussion on either the merits of the proposed actions or the impacts taking them would have on those organizations or the implications that they would create for future actors. But hey, if you're a fan of Bruce Schneier's more recent musings, at least you'll enjoy the conclusion: That we must legislate software, and fast.
- _ph_ 9y ago
  Yes, if you buy a toaster, you can easily replace it. The problem with XP is, that it is a component of larger systems, sometimes not even user-visible. Just take ATMs or some hospital equipment. We can either patch them, or force them to be decommissioned, but I fear, without some regulations, everyone keeps just hoping for the best.
chpmrc 9y ago
Because most people don't give a crap? Out of the 10 people who saw the news (on TV!) while I was there 9 reacted with "Ha! These hackers..." and 1 with "I'm pretty sure they are not interested in a guy like me, I'm safe haha". Until people start losing personal money they won't bother educating themselves. They see these "hacking games" as, well, games.
_ph_ 9y ago
A true disaster always has more than one cause. It took many separate problems and mistakes to sink the titanic and cause such a large loss of human life. Same here. There can be endless and interesting discussions about the role of the NSA, Microsoft, the end users in this very specific incident. But the root of the problem is, that computer security still does not get the proper awareness and attention. This starts from how we write software, but from a society point of view, mostly how we deal with computer systems. Computer systems are not toasters which you can replace easily. Often they are part of larger installations, difficult to replace as a component. We need to deal with them as with aspects of traffic or workplace safety, or hygiene. There should be a clear concept (I sincerely hope we don't require too strict state regulations) that like any professional tool, a computer system has to be reviewed in regular intervals for being fit for its intended purpose, and maintenance for security should be done as naturally, as mechanical or electrical checks. So, for any computer-powered (and networked) device, this would mean, that either there is a maintenance contract in place, which in the end would mean, the provider has a contract with Microsoft, if Windows is used, or, like with any other device, the machine is no longer considered fit for professional use.
gmuslera 9y ago
The article is wrong on timing because they choose to ignore the herd of elephant in the room. The world has been getting hacked since before 2013 by the NSA and related parties. They wanted to keep it hackable (by them, but an open door is open for everyone), not to fix what was wrong (even they asked/forced companies to include backdoors, unsafe encryption and so on). They developed (directly, or hired third party companies) software to hack it even more, and not just systems but people too. They created an entire market of malware/exploit/zero days, where was pretty profitable to find zero days and sell/hoard them instead of warning the world. Is not amazing that in this scenario of planned/designed insecurity at every level even they get hacked/intruded/disclosed, and not just not to get information but the software weapons they were already using too. Is like the department of health has been developing all the latest years new flu strains, are weaponizing them, and somewhat, you get sick, they get sick, everybody else get sick and some of the people you know dies. Would you complain about the last person that transmitted you the disease, the vaccine makers that run behind the (designed) diseases and even are forbidden/delayed to make a cure for them, or the root cause of it all? Instead of asking why we don't do more to stop it, ask yourself why we did (and keep doing) so much to make it happen.

26 points by thesagan 9y ago

Cause the users dont know what they are actually buying. They go for superficial signs of quality - like weigth, design, surfacepolishing and nice UI. Security of a object is a thing you can only evaluate the day it turns around and snaps at you. Now the default american solution for this, would be to have a "Late-Adopter" plugin, allowing to install "Additional" Gated-Comunity-Security for the rich - and let the mob become one huge botnet, held back by aggressive campaigns of bricking whole device classes remote should they be a threat to the "devices" in the better neighbourhoods. Unfortunatly the rest of the world is either too poor or unwilling to follow this model, which means we are going to see a regulated, securty TÜV checked model in europe and japan, state regulated devices in china & russia - and a wild west everywhere else.

fit2rule 9y ago

I would say the reason the world is getting hacked is quite simple: OS vendors are asleep at the wheel. Instead of actually improving their OS platforms, they're instead turning them into web browsers and game engines - while all the vital services that a modern OS should provide are being ignored in the rush for control. Take for example, the Fappening. This was possible because iCloud. iCloud is only necessary - like Dropbox and other services like it - because OS vendors decided they didn't want people to have control over their content, using their local computers - that it was 'easier' to provide servers dedicated to the purpose, than to actually add dedicated file sharing to the individuals' computers. (There are no really good reasons why your modern PC can't serve its own content - especially in this era of bandwidth and monster CPU power. We hosted the 90's Internet on far less powerful computers than your average mobile phone, with less bandwidth too.. the point is, the protocols.) So I honestly think that OS vendors need to be forced back behind the wheel to make our computers better, and the "network is the computer" business model needs to die. This was always a terrible idea, formed on the basis of an accountants wet dream, and should be forgotten as soon as possible. Instead, lets build better computers, simple as that. Computers that are actually safe to use because they've been designed that way, from the get-go. The cloud must die.

geocar 9y ago
How do you force them back to the wheel?
- fit2rule 9y ago
  The same way you handle every 'new' world order, of course .. you build another one right on top. i.e. IPFS, Akasha, Ethereum, etc. These need to become first-class services in a default OS install. Then, maybe, we'll start evolving again ..
Buge 9y ago
Wanting smartphone providers to provide less cloud backups is an interesting suggestion, considering I usually hear the exact opposite. Usually in the context of travelers being forced to give up their phone password at the airport there are suggestions that people wipe their phone before leaving then restore after arriving. Then there are complaints that current smartphones make this too difficult.

gaius 9y ago

To howls of outrage, I have suggested to several companies that we simply disconnect from the public Internet. People programmed before cut-and-paste-from-SO was a thing after all. Obviously the web servers in the DC need to be accessible but the desktops in the office, or the critical bits of infra like DB, file servers and so on, nope. Anyone who wants to surf can easily do so on their personal smartphone with no risk to corporate systems. No one has ever been able to put together a coherent rebuttal to my proposal, yet still the PCs remain connected and still people click things they shouldn't...

fit2rule 9y ago
> People programmed before cut-and-paste-from-SO was a thing after all. I've always considered SO to be more a sign of devolution than anything else. It hasn't produced better programmers - just more programmers. Is that better?
- drinchev 9y ago
  SO, although can be misused via copy & paste to production, is one of the greatest productivity boost I've ever had ( I'm 15+ years of experience ). Sure I remember having lots of fun with Turbo Pascal and paper books, as well as Perl and `man perlre`, but nevertheless there is always one weird error that will cost you half a day of debugging, which nowadays is replaced with 5 minutes googling. SO community are doing fine job with preventing bad code left without the warnings, but anyway I think SO delivered more to programming than it actually took.
  - fit2rule 9y ago
    I think the SO mentality leads to lazy developers who depend too much on the wisdom of others and don't do enough to push their own forward. Too many times I've seen "tech departments" sitting around, incapable of doing anything productive, because "the internet is down". This is a real issue, and I wish it got a bit more attention from the cognescenti .. we are producing generations of robotic developers who can't get anything done without hand-holding...
- 9y ago

roadbeats 9y ago

> ...started, as it often does, with a defect in software, a bug. It all started with poor ethics. Every single version of Microsoft Windows have intentionally left backdoors for NSA and some hackers knew how to use it. This is like you pay some money and buy a house, but the previous owner keeps backup keys to watch you. And some others get the backup keys, kick you out of your own home unless you pay them. This is such a shame for Microsoft, NSA and American government. People trusted Microsoft products and purchased them, in return, Microsoft wanted more than money; they wanted to spy them for their ideological goals.

Buge 9y ago
>Every single version of Microsoft Windows have intentionally left backdoors for NSA and some hackers knew how to use it. Is there any proof of this?
- roadbeats 9y ago
  Have you followed the news at all ?
  - deleted 9y ago
    [deleted]
  - Buge 9y ago
    I have somewhat. I don't recall hearing "every single version of Microsoft Windows have intentionally left backdoors for NSA".
    - roadbeats 9y ago
      For last 15 years Microsoft keeps same "bug" in their every single operating system, even after rewriting it bunch of times. Noone except NSA knew about this bug until their tools got leaked, for 15 years. Can you believe it ? Somehow, only NSA discovered and used this bug. And you're gonna sit in your chair and ask for proof. People like you easily get manipulated by shit organizations like CIA and Microsoft because they can get proof of the color of your poop, unlike me. I don't have a proof, but just use your critical thinking skills. If you got any.

geocar 9y ago

The world gets hacked because programmers make mistakes, and their management cannot evaluate those mistakes -- if only for no other reason that sometimes it isn't even obvious they made a mistake until a couple years later. Users have been fooled: Turn it off and on, is a reasonable and well-known troubleshooting guide, but nobody blames the software vendor. If I'm on the phone with a company and they tell me to turn it off and on, I can't even point out "so you sent me something defective?" this is normal folks. Maybe we need to teach programming younger and younger -- and it'll take two or three generations to become common enough that management will actually understand what I'm doing. Or maybe we need awareness campaigns to keep users from putting up with shit experiences! Or maybe someone has some other idea, but the major barrier exists: We don't know how to program computers, and saying that out loud makes a lot of people with the job-title (or description) of programmer clam right up.

sfilargi 9y ago
You are dead wrong in everything. To start with, your analogy is bad. You cannot compare psychical items with software. When you buy a car do you expect it to run and last forever? Software does, so you can see immediately that it's not a good analogy. Large systems are extremely complex but even so we have process, tools and methods to build reliable, verifiable and bug free code. What is stopping us from using them for every piece of software is the cost. Consumers are happy with the status quo of quality/cost.
- geocar 9y ago
  > Consumers are happy with the status quo of quality/cost. Consumers cannot understand the cost because they are not programmers. I don't understand the rest of your post. I'm not making an analogy to any psychical [sic?] items, physical items, or any other kinds of items.
  - qb45 9y ago
    Maybe not exactly "cannot", but they often don't because the really big costs of shit software are rarely paid and to many users it hasn't happened yet, so it is easy to miss them until you find all of your files encrypted by ransomware and suddenly need to figure out this new bitcoin thing.

drinchev 9y ago

Hopefully governments will one day take GNU/Linux based OS & Software. I know, I know ... Linux for Desktop is hard, but it seems like making exploits are harder than doing the same for Windows ( maybe hacker focus is on windows, who knows. ). Anyway money equation I think is quite simple : Why buy Windows, when you can use Linux and buy backup infrastructure.

golergka 9y ago
Why would anyone spend effort to develop ransomware to target OS that is used mostly on servers, by computer professionals and enthusiasts, and in organizations that are managed by admins that are willing to put extra work to support not-standard solution?
- yorwba 9y ago
  To collect a ransom from the corporations that depend on these servers, and from those well-paid computer professionals?
  - TeMPOraL 9y ago
    Not worth the effort, as end-user systems offer more gain (and the same corporations you mention also need those end-user systems for their employees to do their work).
gaius 9y ago
The recent attack on the NHS targeted Windows XP. I dare you to run a Linux distro from 2001 and tell me its secure from modern attacks.
- lightedman 9y ago
  I run a distro from 1998, it's entirely secure as it has zero network access except via serial port to the CNC it controls.
  - 9y ago

a_imho 9y ago

There is not enough incentive to do so, carrot or stick.

wwwigham 9y ago

The article states this: > The money they made from these customers hasn’t expired; neither has their responsibility to fix defects. This is wrong. We don't ask for mandatory lifetime guarantees in any other industry I'm aware of, and perhaps more importantly, much of what is done in the field wouldn't be possible if it did (could you imagine having to continue to maintain an IE5 webpage for another twenty years?). It goes on: > In its defense, Microsoft probably could point out that its operating systems have come a long way in security since Windows XP, and it has spent a lot of money updating old software, even above industry norms. However, industry norms are lousy to horrible, and it is reasonable to expect a company with a dominant market position, that made so much money selling software that runs critical infrastructure, to do more. If I buy a toaster it comes with a one year warranty, maybe. A nice car might come with a five year or two hundred thousand mile limited warranty. Microsoft sold a product at a fraction of that cost and supported it, unconditionally, for 8 years. 8. And they supported it for five more after that with appropriate arrangements with enterprises (and after a select few enterprises who somehow concluded that paying some engineering salaries at Microsoft for dedicated support was cheaper than upgrading). That's a 13+ year lifetime of support on what was an $80 a license product. Industry norms can only be "horrible" insofar as there's only been a serious industry for 30 years... And XP was supported for half of it (man, I suddenly feel old). My point is that there is no world in which the "cash-strapped National Health Service" is not the primary entity which was grossly negligent in its maintenance of critical infrastructure. Stepping back and looking at the article as a whole and less at specific inflammatory parts, it is, well, filled with inflammatory parts. It starts as a thin attack piece on Microsoft for being slow to provide free support for a 16 year old product, offhandedly references IoT for some added scare factor, then starts calling for action (from both corporate and government actors) without any serious discussion on either the merits of the proposed actions or the impacts taking them would have on those organizations or the implications that they would create for future actors. But hey, if you're a fan of Bruce Schneier's more recent musings, at least you'll enjoy the conclusion: That we must legislate software, and fast.

_ph_ 9y ago
Yes, if you buy a toaster, you can easily replace it. The problem with XP is, that it is a component of larger systems, sometimes not even user-visible. Just take ATMs or some hospital equipment. We can either patch them, or force them to be decommissioned, but I fear, without some regulations, everyone keeps just hoping for the best.

chpmrc 9y ago

Because most people don't give a crap? Out of the 10 people who saw the news (on TV!) while I was there 9 reacted with "Ha! These hackers..." and 1 with "I'm pretty sure they are not interested in a guy like me, I'm safe haha". Until people start losing personal money they won't bother educating themselves. They see these "hacking games" as, well, games.

_ph_ 9y ago

A true disaster always has more than one cause. It took many separate problems and mistakes to sink the titanic and cause such a large loss of human life. Same here. There can be endless and interesting discussions about the role of the NSA, Microsoft, the end users in this very specific incident. But the root of the problem is, that computer security still does not get the proper awareness and attention. This starts from how we write software, but from a society point of view, mostly how we deal with computer systems. Computer systems are not toasters which you can replace easily. Often they are part of larger installations, difficult to replace as a component. We need to deal with them as with aspects of traffic or workplace safety, or hygiene. There should be a clear concept (I sincerely hope we don't require too strict state regulations) that like any professional tool, a computer system has to be reviewed in regular intervals for being fit for its intended purpose, and maintenance for security should be done as naturally, as mechanical or electrical checks. So, for any computer-powered (and networked) device, this would mean, that either there is a maintenance contract in place, which in the end would mean, the provider has a contract with Microsoft, if Windows is used, or, like with any other device, the machine is no longer considered fit for professional use.

gmuslera 9y ago

The article is wrong on timing because they choose to ignore the herd of elephant in the room. The world has been getting hacked since before 2013 by the NSA and related parties. They wanted to keep it hackable (by them, but an open door is open for everyone), not to fix what was wrong (even they asked/forced companies to include backdoors, unsafe encryption and so on). They developed (directly, or hired third party companies) software to hack it even more, and not just systems but people too. They created an entire market of malware/exploit/zero days, where was pretty profitable to find zero days and sell/hoard them instead of warning the world. Is not amazing that in this scenario of planned/designed insecurity at every level even they get hacked/intruded/disclosed, and not just not to get information but the software weapons they were already using too. Is like the department of health has been developing all the latest years new flu strains, are weaponizing them, and somewhat, you get sick, they get sick, everybody else get sick and some of the people you know dies. Would you complain about the last person that transmitted you the disease, the vaccine makers that run behind the (designed) diseases and even are forbidden/delayed to make a cure for them, or the root cause of it all? Instead of asking why we don't do more to stop it, ask yourself why we did (and keep doing) so much to make it happen.