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US Says North Korea 'Directly Responsible' For WannaCry Ransomware Attack (npr.org)
The White House has publicly blamed North Korea for a ransomware attack in May that locked more than 300,000 computers in 150 countries. From a report: In an opinion piece published in The Wall Street Journal on Monday, Homeland security adviser Tom Bossert writes that after careful investigation, Washington can say that Pyongyang is "directly responsible" for the WannaCry virus. Bossert called the attack in which victims received ransom demands to unlock their computers "cowardly, costly and careless." "The consequences and repercussions of WannaCry were beyond economic," he wrote. "The malicious software hit computers in the U.K.'s health-care sector particularly hard, compromising systems that perform critical work. These disruptions put lives at risk." More details here.
Makes perfect sense, after it was recently reported the fearless leader was accumulating the crypto-currency...
On the other hand, demonizing a political opponent is a sensible Machiavellian move.
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However, the White House isn't a trustworthy source.
With a president with record low approval ratings, trying to make a bad enemy for us to unite against, does make political sense.
While there are some other groups involved, so it may be actual, but in this day in age Citing the White House is like Citing a You Tube comment.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
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There is absolutely no reason to believe this. It might be true, it might just be propaganda. That was true when Obama was President, and Bush, and Clinton and .... it may be even more true now with an additional layer of uncertainty introduced by the current President's tendency to just make stuff up on his own when it fits his message.
Considering the explosion in the cost of Bitcoin,
they have leveraged U.S. tech successfully.
The NSA gave them 'WannaCry'.
Trump gave them wanna laugh.
This isn't an act of a friendly government
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This problem becomes pretty much irrelevant when using an OS like OpenBSD that's hardened against many forms of attack, and is developed by experts who take security very seriously. OpenBSD isn't perfect, but it's probably the best way of participating in the often-hostile online world. If you aren't responsible enough to protect your online computers by using OpenBSD, then maybe you should keep your computers completely offline.
WannaCry is based on EternalBlue which traces back to the NSA so I thing we need to give them credit was well.
The US are responsible. They hoarded the zero day and turned it into a weapon. The North Koreans only pushed the button on a weapon the US supplied.
Other than the reuse of lines of code linked to North Korea, what evidence do they have NK was behind it?
They're different from us
Which means they can't be trusted
We must sound the drums of war
Hey, look, just like the current Republican tax atrocity and Trump's interference with the operation of the ACA.
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
World War 3 - started by script kiddies
When someone says that they have sufficient evidence to give all reasonable cause to believe something, and then don't even bother to say what that evidence actually is, I think there's a sufficient basis to believe that they don't really know what they are talking about, and are only trying to make themselves sound much smarter than they actually are for figuring it out.
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
They are also responsible of about 99% of Slashdot posts.
Trump is going to try to start a war. That is my prediction anyways. It is a well-known secret that War is good for approval ratings. First Trump will start to build up a threat. NK is doing this bad thing. Iran is doing that bad thing. It doesn't matter who it is. He just needs to scare people. Then he can save them by sending in bombers. And he can use CNN to cover the destruction which everyone loves to watch because it's like good-ole war movie but real life which is even cooler. Most leaders would not deliberately drive the country into a war knowing that there will be a huge cost in life. But I think we all sense that Trump is exactly that guy. He'll say, "we have to be smart ... have to get tough ... can't be weak ...". It's all going to be "tremendous" I'm sure. He would do just about anything to get any kind of affirmation whatsoever. He'll probably declare it in a tweet the cheap son-of-a-b**ch.
Presumably this information, which the Trump administration is claiming to be accurate, came from the same sources as the information proving Russia meddled in the election, which the Trump administration denies.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
More or less than America bombing hospitals and weddings?
what if some covert CIA did it from a foreign server somewhere just so they can blame the north koreans, i just dont trust the news media anymore, not the domestic news services, not foreign news services, they are all corrupt and divisive
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So they really are preparing for a war... :(
Shit
You're deluded
The NSA sat on the eternal blue exploit instead of telling Microsoft.
Had they informed Microsoft, there would not have been an attack to begin with.
Then the NSA was irresponsible with the exploit and it got leaked before Microsoft could patch.
To me, it looks like wrongdoing on many sides - on many sides.
How many remote 0days has theo been vulnerable to in the last 20 year's?
Don't put faith in openbsd...
Means, Motive, Opportunity.
Means: They crawl and scour looking for new cyber-warfare and build on that. EternalBlue for example.
Motive: They hate ukraine that was hit hardest (and said to have potentially originated from there).
Opportunity: Lab testing suggested that they would be able to achieve the technical outcome (ransom) and make a quick couple bitcoin while the vulnerability wasn't patched.
To me, 2 things don't add up: #1 A couple bitcoin? That's a terrible ROI. Maybe it was just a test of their packaging and to see how quickly organizations respond (organizational behavior test/analysis) #2 I don't know if NK knows where Ukraine even in. Do they? I would think there are others that have much greater reason to target Ukraine...
that we're seeing more and more stories about how Iran and NK attacked us? We did the same thing to Iraq...
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We are living in strange times when we call The White House "Not trustworthy".
The reason we have separation of power is precisely because we don't trust people with power as a fundamental principle in the US. We particularly should not trust people who lie as transparently and frequently and maliciously as Trump. Not trusting the White House should be routine. What makes the times strange is who is in charge of it at the moment.
Where I'm not going to claim that Trump hasn't contributed to his approval ratings, I am going to point out that a lot of this is a product of a lot of negative press coverage, much of which doesn't seem to be warranted when you look back on it.
Trump hasn't gotten as much negative coverage as he deserves. The press frankly has been WAY too soft on him. The man is a carnival barker given actual power. He tells transparent and ridiculous lies with breathtaking frequency. He completely lacks the competence and dignity that the office of president requires. If you think the negative coverage of Trump isn't warranted I frankly question your sanity and/or integrity.
1. Microsoft's relevant patches to remedy WannaCry were ___finalized and digitally signed a few months prior to release___ and before the WannaCry outbreak
2. This indicates that it was a test designed to probe infrastructure for future hacks and sabotage, since the "cure" had to be immediately available
3. Both WannaCry and the patches were most likely developed by NSA and/or CIA, and of course a handful of people at Microsoft will have to comply when these court orders are handed to them
4. Use the opportunity to put blame on Iran and NK, like everything else these days, and hope that the general public will voice their support for an illegal invasion and war against them
Are we really going to believe a nation that only has 28 websites, whose entire population has extremely limited access to the internet is going to be full of IT know-how to continuously plague the world?
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And before you start touting nukes and rockets. Realize that nuclear bombs and rockets are basically 80 year old WWII technology.
Cowardly
Moralizing your failures, the strategy of champions.
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However, I've never really had anybody defend that position with actual quotes, taken in context about some topic that's actually material to the governing of the country.
Then you haven't bothered to look. 20 seconds on google would get you endless lists of his lies documented and refuted or explained. Serious news organization are keeping track of them.
I get that he's abrasive and spouts off stuff of questionable sources at times, but I don't see him as the kind that just lies to hear himself speak, or lies for political advantage like some from the other side of the isle have in the past.
Then you are truly a clueless idiot.
"Tapped my wires" tweet which was widely condemned as a lie but was pretty much true looking back on what we know now.
I don't know where you get your information but it was a lie then and it is a lie now. There is no evidence for this claim.
...a country reputed to be in the Internet Stone Age produces some of the worlds most successful virus manufacturers?
I'm having great difficulty swallowing the story that North Korea was responsible. Normally I accept the mainstream view, but in this case if someone put up a credible Conspiracy Theory I'd be quite likely to go for it.
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for the DPRK insistence on getting nukes. We pinky swore we wouldn't do anything bad to Saddam and Ghadhafi if they disarmed and look where it got them. We're currently fighting 7 wars (Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Seria Niger, Libya and Somalia) without congressional approval . We're not a nation to be trusted. NK would be fools to disarm now. Thanks to our war mongering they've literally got nothing to lose. We destabilized the entry world so the GOP could win a few elections, and the Dems went along with it because they didn't have the backbone to stand up.
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You are surprised that The White House isn't trustworthy? I mean sure Trump takes it to next level shit, but pretty much all politicians that have been in that house have not been all that trustworthy... I mean there have been some pretty big ones in recent history. Bush, Nixon, Clinton, Regan, and I could probably list just about every single one of both political stripes. Maybe not Carter, he seems like a decent fellow, but then again I don't know a lot about him either.
Wait what? I'm confused. Did you even visit the opebbsd homepage?
How many vulnerabilities has....
Ahhh fuck it, not even worth it.
Clearly that's a DCMA violation. No wonder Trump has smoke coming out of his... whatever.
We have seen this before.... now where was it.
Oh thats right, it was the White House saying that Hussein had Weapons of Mass Destruction.
They lied, but Bush and his mates made a fortune from the war, even better by making the US scared of terrorists they have been able to bring in legislation that has stripped US citizens of lots of their "freedom".
The White House has publicly blamed North Korea for a ransomware attack in May that locked more than 300,000 computers in 150 countries.
The White House has publicly blamed North Korea for a ransomware attack in May that locked more than 300,000 WINDOWS BASED computers in 150 countries.
Fixed that for you.
Bush Sr had the good sense to get us the hell out of that quagmire and leave Saddam in charge because as bad as he was the instability would be worse. Every google the numbers on the amount of civilian casualties we caused in Iraq. It's tens of thousands; and those are just the ones we're willing to admit to. Then there's the $7 Trillion dollar price tag for the war (plus $3 trillion for Afghanistan that we only fought so an oil company could get it's pipeline and America could sate it's blood lust after 9/11).
Anyway nice straw man. What Saddam did after the Gulf War has nothing to do with our unprovoked invasion. DPRK can't play nice because we don't play nice. Kim got the message loud and clear: Get nukes or get taken out. It's not a bluff. It's literally the only option he has left. The only option we, the American people, left him when we elected a president in dire need of a good war to get his poll numbers up.
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The White House has publicly blamed North Korea for a ransomware attack in May that locked more than 300,000 computers in 150 countries.
The White House is full of toobes. We can block NK viri selectively with non-net neutrality toobes.
Microshaft OSen isn't to blame.
Some Swiss company claimed they are going to sue the pants of that company for producing Swiss cheese without a license.
Me I use Linux and didn't cry.
We should definitely nuke them then, millions of North Koreans, in this generation and generations to come should pay for this with their lives.
Get China and Russia on board and cut them off from the internet.
NYT, politifact and Washington post articles? Nope.. You won't accept my Fox News reference for similar reasons...
Facts don't depend on whether you like who brings them to your attention.
How about picking your favorite lie and let's discuss it...
Nope. Go do the research fanboi. I've provided you countless examples of verified and checked statements. Do with them what you will.
Remember, a LIE is when you are leading someone to believe something you KNOW is false. It's about what you know to be true and what your intent is.
If Trump doesn't know he is lying then if anything that means he is delusional which is possibly worse. So which is it? Is he a liar or is he crazy?
This is just more whining from the Democrats to distract from their hugely big league loss last year.
Why be enemies with N. Korea? Wouldn't it be great if we could be friends?
They're just as bad if not worse than Kim. At least he's got the excuse of a poor country and dangerous neighbors.
You're argument is all over the place and filled to the brim with right wing talking points, Straw men, non sequiturs and just plain meanness. I know you're trolling, at least I hope you are. Because the alternative is that you're getting paid to spew that stuff by right wing propagandists trying to get us into war.
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