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(removing Peace from Cc...)<br>
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There's a good article about this on Common Dreams this afternoon --<br>
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<span display="inline"><span><span><span
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class="UFICommentBody _1n4g"><span><span>It used an
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><span><span>ns
that don't often update their software remained
vulnerable. The NSA could have told Microsoft years
earlier.</span><br>
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<span>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>
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<a
href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/05/12/nsa-tools-built-despite-warnings-used-global-cyber-attack">https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/05/12/nsa-tools-built-despite-warnings-used-global-cyber-attack</a><br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/12/17 7:44 PM, Karen Aram via
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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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