Dear X-Air and WeatherCat responsible netizens,
The 'back doors' I referred to are requested by our 'guvment'.
Yes, I do understand your point and concern. Alas, the government hadn't started asking for back-doors until recently. Since it stands to reason the government has always been as nosy as it is now, one has to assume that software was chocked full of back-doors that the government simply helped itself to our devices without so much as a warning. I wouldn't be surprised if governmental monitoring of computers started out because it was so easy to hack into these sloppily implemented systems. Once the government got addicted to this sort of access, it is hardly a surprise that they don't want to lose what is to them
"a really good thing." This piece on gizmodo makes some really good points of how the government carefully catalogued every exploit they could find and why government should ultimately should be blamed for this outbreak:
http://gizmodo.com/u-s-government-fears-a-monday-explosion-of-the-ransomw-1795208518I particularly like this quote:
We have seen vulnerabilities stored by the CIA show up on WikiLeaks, and now this vulnerability stolen from the NSA has affected customers around the world. Repeatedly, exploits in the hands of governments have leaked into the public domain and caused widespread damage. An equivalent scenario with conventional weapons would be the U.S. military having some of its Tomahawk missiles stolen.
Nonetheless, the piece makes it clear the government had nothing to do with creating the back-doors. The back-doors were creating by sloppy software implementation.
I remain convinced the greatest blame should fall on the silicon valley types who never have enough time to implement software correctly and only reluctantly go back to fix their mistakes because they are way too busy working on the
next big thing.
As the old saying goes:
"It ain't no way to run a railroad . . . . "Oh well, Edouard