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It's Monday the 15th of May 2017. I'm Ken Ray and this is news from Maco

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Find out more in that your support at Patreon.com slash Maco-Scan. We'll start today with something that's not Apple News, though it could be

eventually if Congress forces Apple to build a backdoor in the iOS encryption

as some members want it to do. By now you've

likely heard a lot about the Wanna Cry ransomware that's plagued and paralyzed

some businesses and government institutions around the world over the past few days.

What can I tell you about it?

Almost nothing.

Maybe we'll talk about it on this week's checklist, I'm not sure.

Here's what I can tell you. Philosophically it sounds like

Wanna Cry and the havoc it's reeked were the result of good guys thinking they

at a backdoor that no one else would ever figure out how to use.

Last August, according to Tech Crunch, a group of hackers who work with the NSA, called the

Equation Group, got hacked themselves.

The group that hacked them, the Shadow Brokers, made off with code for

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