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Comment by zokier

I don't quite understand how WannaCry became such a big deal. Ransomware is already old thing, SMB worms even older. WannaCry didn't even use a 0day ffs, the patch for this was already published few months ago (and not particularly quietly I might add). There is very little novel about WannaCry as far as I can tell. Additionally W10 apparently was not vulnerable in the first place.

All this, and still WannaCry hit the main evening news, which at least around here is somewhat high bar. Not sure what to think about that.

parent zokier 9 years ago

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