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WannaCry's Warning: Unpatched Operating Systems and Third-Party Harm
Robert Chesney Mon, May 15, 2017, 5:45 PM
The most important policy question raised by the WannaCry ransomware fiasco is not the most obvious one.
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The most important policy question raised by the WannaCry ransomware fiasco is not the most obvious one.
In a recent blog post, Microsoft argued that the use of a vulnerability for Windows XP stolen from the NSA and released by the Shadow Brokers has caused widespread damage in the public domain, and the lesson that governments should learn from this incident is that government stockpiling of vulnerabilities that might be inadvertently revealed presents a hazard to safe computing around the world.