[AusNOG] The Ransomware to come

[Paul Wilkins]

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Kind regards

Paul Wilkins

On 14 May 2017 at 16:01, Edwin Groothuis <edwin at mavetju.org> wrote:

> 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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