Another example of why not to use microsoft products

[Michael]

maybe microsoft could be sued for the ease  it can be hacked?

On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 9:36 PM, Michael Butash <mike at butash.net> wrote:

> 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:
>
>>
>>
>> Civil disobedience of the computer kind!! I'm going to guess they were
>> not malicious, which makes this humorous.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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/
>>>
>>> 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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