Re: Another example of why not to use microsoft products

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Author: Michael Butash
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Subject: Re: Another example of why not to use microsoft products
It was quite malicious, with a big "fu, pay me!" message and where to
send fund negotiations via email. Stakes go up some if City of San
Francisco wants to collect toll on their subways come tomorrow morning
hitting work day.

This is a gigantic burn to them, something the SF Muni IT themselves
likely can't handle recovery in any mass scale themselves (being
probably just run of the mill underpaid government windoze admins). No
one really knows how anything in Cali stays afloat with revenue they
have let alone now they can't even collect what they should thanks to
every windows system letting itself be owned.

I'm really interested to see what comes of this. It should be a
foreboding tale of things to come for others.

-mb


On 11/27/2016 07:18 PM, Keith Smith wrote:
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> Civil disobedience of the computer kind!! I'm going to guess they were
> not malicious, which makes this humorous.
>
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> On 2016-11-27 14:33, Michael Butash wrote:
>> The grinch that encrypted most of San Francisco Municipal's subway
>> systems over black friday:
>>
>> http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2016/11/26/you-hacked-cyber-attackers-crash-muni-computer-system-across-sf/
>>
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>> Like a good little worm, it just worked its way into everything it
>> could, and here it found a ripe network full of windoze systems.
>>
>> Do you *really* trust this couldn't happen to your
>> business|house|government|life built on Microsoft technology?
>>
>> -mb
>>
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