WOW!!! Microsoft blames NSA for "wannacry" ransomware attacks.!!!

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Joe Biden - "Time to put Trump in the bullseye."
Don't see this very often. A huge elitist company like mickeysoft attacking the US govt.!!!

http://www.latimes.com/world/europe/la-fg-europe-computer-virus-20170514-story.html

may 14 2017 A Microsoft executive sharply criticized a U.S. spy agency Sunday for its role in weaponizing a weakness in Windows and allowing it to be stolen by hackers and used to launch history’s largest ransomware attack.

"This attack provides yet another example of why the stockpiling of vulnerabilities by governments is such a problem," Brad Smith, president and chief legal officer at Microsoft, wrote in the wake of the “WannaCry” computer virus attack, which crippled computers worldwide.

The fast-moving virus, which first hit Friday, exploits a vulnerability in the Windows operating system that had been discovered by the U.S. National Security Agency. That information was stolen by hackers and published online.
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This attack provides yet another example of why the stockpiling of vulnerabilities by governments is such a problem,"
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that's a new one..the NSA holds piles of malware for weaponization.
then it get's out and gets used by others as a weapon.

who could have seen that coming?? :palm:
 
Microsoft is probably right about this but it wouldn't have happened had Gates not sold out to the Clinton justice department back in the day. You all do know that MS has been nothing but an NSA puppet for years, right?
 
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