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Originally Posted by pip08456
Pity you didn't read the first paragraph of the Ars Technia article you linked to.
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To be fair though, the Shadow Brokers stole/acquired the NSA tools months ago, tried to auction them off, Microsoft patched the holes that hadn't been patched (it's somewhat of a mystery how they were informed of what needed patching, one suspects the security agencies finally revealed the exploits to them) and by the time the Shadow Brokers released the toolkit into the wild patches were available for all of the supported operating systems.
At least one of the exploits was on XP, which meant anyone not paying for extended support were still vulnerable, hence the Wannacrypt fun last month. Plus not everyone keeps their systems fully patched
