just no. how did you come to that conclusion.
NHS computer systems hacked!?
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Point was I think you are massively underestimating the shake up it would require to the law as well as logistically and how whole rafts of interconnected industries work - it would be 10-20 years or more before what you are talking about would be feasible in the slightest.
There's nothing fundamentally wrong with applications running on mainframe systems and accessed via terminal emulators, let's not get the idea that newer always equals better.
What good is the source code if you don't fully understand it?
nope, again I said like a decade, so I think you are just failing at reading.
also lets take this back to reality, when was an mri machine used as a backdoor.
did I say have it for everything?
is it a potential back door, can it infect the rest of the system, is it a multi bn dollar piece that is critical for your companys existence? If yes to all then you would probably want to get it in that case.
NHS is not only using Win 7 and XP but it's not uncommon to see Windows 98 on ECG machines and other built ins. And for a good reason. We live in terrible times of enforced product obsolescence. A multimillion fleet of 2012 computers with Windows 7 would lose security updates just three years later because Microsoft decided end consumer and millions of machines in government and healthcare places just weren't worth their attention. Multimillion fleet of perfectly good cardiographs or ultrasound scanners from 2012 wouldn't get drivers to work on Windows 8 or Windows 10 because it was unsustainable for developers to maintain such wide span of OSes. Databases wouldn't support both old and new OSes. It's virtually impossible for organisation like NHS to keep up with lifecycles this short. And good that they don't chase those scrooge EOLs. Windows 8 will stop updating next year. Windows 10 forced onto everyone on earth will stop updating in 2020. By the time NHS would replace last computer in Johny O'Groats walk in centre, it would be already obsolete in the eyes of Microsoft and with them, manufacturers and devs writing drivers and so on.
And there isn't viable alternative. Insurable Linux? Red Hat - is even worse - RHEL5 was only released in 2014 and it's already EOL. Just three years later. With no direct upgrade path.
And there isn't viable alternative. Insurable Linux? Red Hat - is even worse - RHEL5 was only released in 2014 and it's already EOL. Just three years later. With no direct upgrade path.
apart from extended support is 5 years after those dates you given, but don't let facts get in the way. Oh and w10 is past those dates as long as you keep it upto date, with every new update it gets extended.
Vista was released 2006 and has just ended support.
It probably would need to be hooked to N3 though to get the scans onto the patient notes.
One simply does not code a new mri backend .jpg
MS have been doing this for a long time. You only have to look at the roadmaps now to see that new versions are purely created because that's what the roadmap/cycle states. How else do you sell people 3 years of SA? You promise people that they will get a new version of an OS/software package at least every 2 years. There's no real need for a new OS that quickly as they could easily build in new functionality etc but that's not going to make them the money they require. They want to sell you a new shiny and you will buy it..
With regards to data protection GDPR is going to shake up the whole game with regards to hacks and leaks. Companies will get massive fines for not securing data. (2-4% of turnover if I remember correctly?) Any company looking after user/personal data will need to demonstrate they have controls in place to secure it and also report leaks/hacks within 72 hours. Although it's an EU thing it affects any personal data traversing the EU, so us in the U.K. And even guys in the US won't be able to dodge it.
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Felicity Smoak would've nuked this already with nowt but a few key presses. 
The caveat is that they have to pay for the extended support no?
And lol if your response to that is to build a culture of staff using flash drives.
Yea and it's horrendously expensive. When the MOD looked in to it, it was multi-millions.
Or land a very long jail term.
The purest capitalism - lots of profit for a few people at little or no cost to them.
I don't think it was intentionally targetted at anything other than large corporations by the nature of its design - I suspect a botnet or similar just sat there pushing emails, sniffing for vulnerable machines and exploiting backdoors if and when opened when infections were successful to push further malware and largely acting autonomously.
Person who designed it probably wasn't directly involved in deploying it these days - possibly people who are more of the "script kiddie" type were the ones who put it into action possibly after paying for it themselves.
