Ransomware Troubles? Blame Legacy Apps And Patch Problems

[ralphfaith]

Trifecta ingredients for this mess:
1. Microsoft
2. Windows
3. U.S. Government

Yes I read it at places that people are accusing Microsoft for all this. Any confirm and authentic sources? Cuz I was having a discussion with my brother on this and need some strong references.

 

[alidan]

And how do you get hospitals to be on board? regulation, you make it a law that they are required to have these systems in place by X date, then subsidized to some extent if not fully the hardware upgrade. Then to top it off, allow for experimental/unsupported hardware to be allowed, but it can not be on the grid by law so you use thumb drives or something similar to take data from place to place, and there you go, a simple solution if you really want to fix the problem.

I do hope you intend to forward this to the next UK government along with the details of how much it's going to cost and how you intend to finance it, because if it really is that simple you'll be in line for a knighthood.

depends, realistically the hardware would not cost more.
The software and making it work with hardware, that would cost some money.
let's say even if it was 100 million to 1 billion a year, spread out across the majority of first world countries, or as a slight increase for patient use, you now have a board that makes a standardized hardware + software combo that won't be broken into due to updates whose job it is to made damn sure the updates work and get pushed as soon as possible.

With everything on a standard infrastructure, the initial cost is the worst of it after that its largely maintenance mode till hardware obsolescence.

 

[Mousemonkey]

And how do you get hospitals to be on board? regulation, you make it a law that they are required to have these systems in place by X date, then subsidized to some extent if not fully the hardware upgrade. Then to top it off, allow for experimental/unsupported hardware to be allowed, but it can not be on the grid by law so you use thumb drives or something similar to take data from place to place, and there you go, a simple solution if you really want to fix the problem.

I do hope you intend to forward this to the next UK government along with the details of how much it's going to cost and how you intend to finance it, because if it really is that simple you'll be in line for a knighthood.

depends, realistically the hardware would not cost more.
The software and making it work with hardware, that would cost some money.
let's say even if it was 100 million to 1 billion a year, spread out across the majority of first world countries, or as a slight increase for patient use, you now have a board that makes a standardized hardware + software combo that won't be broken into due to updates whose job it is to made damn sure the updates work and get pushed as soon as possible.

With everything on a standard infrastructure, the initial cost is the worst of it after that its largely maintenance mode till hardware obsolescence.

Fine, now just put that forward to whichever side gets into number 10 and all will be peachy! :lol: