I mean, say what you want to say about the NSA or disclosure process. But this is one in which what's broken is the system by which we fix.
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Jeremiah Grossman
Will this be the wake-up call?https://twitter.com/jeremiahg/status/863104815051792385 …
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Folks, about two thirds of ALL android phones in the US are lagging in patches. If those are the numbers, it means patching is broken.
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If an industry has regular, massive and overwhelming failures involving their product—which threaten lives—need to change how it all works.
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All the geek world telling me "they should have patched." I spend tons of time trying to get people to update. But that's not enough.
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It's as if there was obscure, hard to grok biomedical paper on e. coli in particular brands of food—and company shrugged if you missed it?
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If we had a functioning government or tech industry that had priorities straight, there would be billions poured into figuring out patching.
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.. while we hopefully move as fast as possible to architecturally secure operating systems (proper sandbox etc. like chromebook, iOS).
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Yeah, that will be something. "Turn over $100k in two minutes or we go off the cliff". https://twitter.com/jccarvajal/status/863146054300184576 …
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Catalin Cimpanu
Widescale Tor and Bitcoin use in attack that crippled kids hospitals, diverted ambulances, canceled heart surgeries.https://twitter.com/campuscodi/status/863158665129467904 …
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it is really time to crack open Leviathan for anyone in infosec, or anyone who cares about an open internet.
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Yeay.
@malwaretechblog sinkholed the kill-switch domain—attackers had help pages in many languages but didn't register their #@! domain.2 replies 5 retweets 19 likes -
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This should stop the spread but none of this was guaranteed—there was a hard-coded kill-switch domain, and someone could get to it sooner.
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