[AusNOG] The Ransomware to come

[Edwin Groothuis]

I found this gem earlier today:

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2017/05/rejection-letter.html

"I'd like to apologize in advance, but after consulting with my colleagues
in other departments at Reality Publishing Corporation, I'm afraid we can't
publish your book, "Zero Day: The story of MS17-010", as things stand.
However, I'd like to add that it was a gripping read, very well written,
and we hope to see more from you in future!"

On Sat, May 13, 2017 at 12:31 PM, Paul Wilkins <paulwilkins369 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> In light of today's ransomware attack, (74 countries/with demands
> translated in 28 languages), I'm tempted to take a step back and take a
> longer optic on the gap between what the internet was meant to be, and what
> exists today. The OSI model which built the net was built on implicit trust
> between each layer and the one above. It was never anticipated that in a
> couple of milliseconds, a few hundred packets from Kazakhstan could span
> the globe to hard drives around the world, and a ubiquitous operating
> system would then lock up people's data with hard cryptography.
>
> You don't even need to play Cassandra to realise there's a genuine risk
> sooner or later, someone will sign a driver (ala Stuxnet), and significant
> portions of the global internet population will lose their data. Actual
> costs could run to billions of dollars. Unfortunately it will likely take
> an event of such magnitude before there's broad recognition that the trust
> model of the internet built on ipv4 is fundamentally broken, and we need a
> new network protocol that supports integrated security, and this would be a
> more worthwhile exercise than replacing ipv4 with ipv6.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Paul Wilkins
>
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