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The era of global botnets, worms, and ransomware can be credited to Microsoft, as well. Lax concern and slow turnaround for CVEs, poor update performance that
by washadjeffmad 3y ago
The era of global botnets, worms, and ransomware can be credited to Microsoft, as well.
Lax concern and slow turnaround for CVEs, poor update performance that led to much of the world turning off automatic updates, and updates being blocked on non-activated installs, if they weren't just easily broken gave root (literally) to fleets of vulnerable internet connected Windows systems being leveraged against the world at large for roughly a decade until Windows 10 brought (and forced) endpoint security practices into the 21th century.
It's reassuring that their official stance hasn't changed; "This is how big we are, and it'd be a real tragedy if we couldn't afford to stop something like what we caused before from happening again...", instead of being sued into responsibility by the world at large.
(Uh oh, not 5 minutes in and it looks like Microsoft PR is already here to downvote the trouble away.)
- xyst 3y agoNot sure why this is downvoted. “NotPetya” and StuxNet were sophisticated worms/viruses which leveraged flaws in Microsoft products to ultimately bring down infra (ie, Iran nuclear program) or bring down countries (ie, Ukraine suffered attacks to energy sector)
- ImPostingOnHN 3y agoPart of the reason it is downvoted is the snide insult at the end about downvotes. It took conscious decision and effort to edit a snide insult into the post where there was none before. As one of the people being derogatorily called "Microsoft PR", this is unnecessarily antagonistic of GP towards me on HN, especially when I did nothing to GP. Commenting on your downvotes is off-topic, against the rules, and when done as a snide insult like above: rude. GP might experience better results if they edited their post to remove the snide, insulting comments about downvoters.
- washadjeffmad 3y agoReddit refugees. The downvote has become the new "disagree/disapprove" button, post-exodus.