20-05-2017 22:39 via theguardian.com

Why do we need 'accidental heroes' to deal with global cyber-attacks? | Evgeny Morozov

Big tech firms say they are the only providers of large cybersecurity services – even as their products are compromised. The conflict of interest is hugeTo appreciate the perversity of our reliance on US technology giants, you just need to grapple with the fact that one of the likely winners in the global “cyber-outage” – caused by the series of crippling cyber-attacks that hit public and private institutions worldwide a week ago – might be the very company whose so
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