Guest BacKaran Posted May 16, 2017 Share Posted May 16, 2017 This is a great reason to have cash, food, guns, Bibles, gas and pencil and paper on hand.....I admire those who loved in the wagon trail days... Got a flat wheel? To, were staying here until one is made... Let's go! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SavedOnebyGrace Posted May 16, 2017 Group: Royal Member Followers: 0 Topic Count: 11 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 4,056 Content Per Day: 15.19 Reputation: 5,191 Days Won: 0 Joined: 07/30/2023 Status: Offline Share Posted May 16, 2017 14 hours ago, missmuffet said: That is an interesting conclusion. The code that was used was code the NSA used as a tool in their repertoire. My theory is someone on the outside, maybe North Korea, hacked the NSA and stole this tool. It's only a theory. The USA doesn't always develop their own "tools". Sometimes they buy them from others as in the case of decrypting the Apple iPhone awhile back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
other one Posted May 16, 2017 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 29 Topic Count: 596 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 56,061 Content Per Day: 7.55 Reputation: 27,803 Days Won: 271 Joined: 12/29/2003 Status: Offline Share Posted May 16, 2017 I thought the Russians did it..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SavedOnebyGrace Posted May 16, 2017 Group: Royal Member Followers: 0 Topic Count: 11 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 4,056 Content Per Day: 15.19 Reputation: 5,191 Days Won: 0 Joined: 07/30/2023 Status: Offline Share Posted May 16, 2017 3 minutes ago, other one said: I thought the Russians did it..... If you look at a map of these particular cyber attacks, Russia was probably hit as hard as the USA. One country not affected is North Korea. Germany, Eastern Europe and Western Russia were probably hit hardest. South America, Africa and Canada were not hit much at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happinessity Posted May 16, 2017 Group: Removed from Forums for Breaking Terms of Service Followers: 1 Topic Count: 6 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 260 Content Per Day: 0.10 Reputation: 188 Days Won: 0 Joined: 05/02/2017 Status: Offline Share Posted May 16, 2017 On 5/15/2017 at 3:47 AM, WorthyNewsBot said: (Worthy News) - The unprecedented global ransomware cyberattack has hit more than 200,000 victims in more than 150 countries, Europol executive director Rob Wainwright said Sunday. The head of the pan-European Union policing agency said that few had given in to the demands for payment to unblock files so far, but warned that the situation was escalating. Wainwright said he was worried that the ransomware attack might spread further once people return to work on Monday and log on to their computers. Wainwright said the attack was indiscriminate, fast-spreading and unique because the ransomware was being used in combination with a worm — meaning that the infection of one computer could automatically spread it through an entire network. [ Source ] View the full article The challenges of evolving into technological dependence. There's a lesson behind all this. Years ago there was a movie I caught by chance. A blackout occurred in this neighborhood and spanned quite a ways but not the whole U.S.. The people in this one neighborhood panic and think the worst because the power doesn't come on right away. The blackout lasts something like the weekend. Meanwhile, we get to see just how dependent we are on one resource; electricity. They can't get fuel at the local stations. They can't get cash from the bank ATM. One man's son has asthma and they can't get his inhaler from the pharmacy because the computer doesn't bring up the boys account. Which is ridiculous in that case because the pharmacist knew the family so he could have just given the boy the ability to breathe. There are no lights. But there are phones, because electricity outage doesn't effect those. But what was weird in the movie plot is that wasn't brought up. It just showed how people panic when the power went out. Think about that. We're told our grid in the U.S. is very primitive compared to some countries. Imagine a hit on the electric grid in the U.S. . What that would do to America itself. This with the computers is one thing. But that? Yikes. Someone out there is showing us just how vulnerable we are. God help us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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