<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">One of the very few authentic American heroes of the vicious SW Asian wars.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 12, 2017, at 8:25 PM, Roger Helbig via Peace-discuss <<a href="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net" class="">peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Snowden is probably as much at fault as anyone - his initial theft probably was exploited by Russian hackers - he is NO HERO, just a common thief</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 6:22 PM, Stuart Levy via Peace-discuss <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net" target="_blank" class="">peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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(removing Peace from Cc...)<br class="">
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There's a good article about this on Common Dreams this afternoon --<br class="">
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Windows vulnerability discovered by the NSA years ago,
but only revealed to Microsoft after the NSA tools
were leaked. Microsoft released a fix pretty quickly -
in March - but organizatio</span></span><span class=""><span class=""><span class="">ns
that don't often update their software remained
vulnerable. The NSA could have told Microsoft years
earlier.</span><br class="">
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<span class="">The argument: don't hang on to discovered
security holes because "only us good guys know about
them", since of course it doesn't stay that way.
As Edward Snowden said today, this is the
consequence.</span><br class="">
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<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/05/12/nsa-tools-built-despite-warnings-used-global-cyber-attack" target="_blank" class="">https://www.commondreams.org/<wbr class="">news/2017/05/12/nsa-tools-<wbr class="">built-despite-warnings-used-<wbr class="">global-cyber-attack</a><br class="">
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<div class="">I saw it this morning on Sky News International, NHS
was hit, at least 40 or their hospitals and organizations. Only
later was I able to acquire the link below from
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<a href="https://www.rt.com/usa/388187-leaked-nsa-exploit-ransomware/" target="_blank" class="">https://www.rt.com/usa/388187-<wbr class="">leaked-nsa-exploit-ransomware/</a>
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