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U.S. declares North Korea carried out massive WannaCry cyberattack[^]
To quote:
"The WannaCry attack, the official said, "demonstrates the importance of basic cyber hygiene,...." -
Well duh! And how about spending money to upgrade your antiquated XP operating system, to something more resistant to Ransom viruses, like Windows 10?
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Wasn't that obvious from the original ransomware message?
Quote: Glorious Leader control all your datas now and he really cool. If you want your datas back send Glorious Leader 5 billion dong or many Bitcoins - no crappy U.S. dollar, okay? And be sure to get Glorious Leader style glorious haircut because it really cool and Glorious Leader kill you if not you do this. If you no want datas back then Glorious Leader nuke you big time and then beat you at Battleships, sucker - Glorious Leader is world champion of Battleships. Whatever CIA say, this attack not by Glorious People's Republic of North Korea - it by the horrible peoples of South Korea.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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 I also hear the Glorious Leader can scale snow covered mountains wearing Italian loafers and a business suit! What a maroon!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Cornelius Henning wrote: how about spending money to upgrade your antiquated XP operating system, to something more resistant to Ransom viruses, like Windows 10?
Windows 10 is still vulnerable to Microsoft's regular update virus.
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At least Microsoft won't try to extort bitcoins out of their customers! 
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really, North Korea?!?!!
I would assume it is Chinese spoofing North Korea.
I'd rather be phishing!
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This is nothing more than political propaganda against NK and has nothing to do with a programmers forum.
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I think Cybersecurity issues and programming are growing progressively closer together, so it's not irrelevant.
I do feel totally awful that North Korea's good name is being besmirched so scandalously, though. 
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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Nathan Minier wrote: North Korea's good name is being besmirched so scandalously
99% of crazed North Korean dictators are giving a bad reputation to the rest of them.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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What better place is there for you to make mendacious political jibes then a programmers forum?
History is the joke the living play on the dead.
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With which part of my statement did you disagree?
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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What part of this is a "programmers forum" did you not understand, with the implicit statement that political commentary is not to be encouraged?
History is the joke the living play on the dead.
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"Programmer's Forum" is not the same as "Forum for discussing programs".
You imply that programmers should not discuss anything but programs.
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I'd say you were discussing NK's nuclear program.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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Ian Bell, #2 wrote: nothing to do with a programmers forum
so no different then 99.9999% of the things posted in the lounge then.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
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Political commentary is supposedly an off topic here. However, one can be forgiven for getting the impression that certain members here support and encourage US propaganda.
History is the joke the living play on the dead.
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"...that affected more than 230,000 computers in more than 150 countries earlier this year."
I was surprised by how low that number was.
Cornelius Henning wrote: Well duh! And how about spending money to upgrade your antiquated XP operating system, to something more resistant to Ransom viruses, like Windows 10?
According to Kaspersky, 98% of the infected systems were running Windows 7.
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The point is that Windows 10 is immune against the WannaCry thing, whereas earlier operating systems are not.
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United Nations company choice noisily chewed down clumsily (13)
Clue slightly expanded
United Nations = UN
Company = Co
Choice = Or
Noisily = Din
Chewed = Ate
Down = D
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modified 19-Dec-17 10:48am.
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...chomp?
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I did think of un-com-mendable as in 'mandible'
modified 19-Dec-17 10:28am.
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Not quite.
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