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NOKIA WAS FORCED to pay several million euro to criminals who had threatened to leak the source code that was used in its phones six years ago.
The Finnish police told local TV station MTV that it was investigating the case, which happened in 2008, and that the case was still open.
According to Reuters, the blackmailers had acquired the encryption key for a core part of Nokia’s Symbian software and threatened to make it public.
If this happened, it would have allowed anyone to write additional code for the operating system, including possible malware which would have been indistinguishable from the actual software.
Nokia agreed to deliver the cash to a parking lot for collection, but not before it notified the police about the situation. However, while the money was picked up, the police lost track of the criminals after it happened.
At the time, Symbian’s market share was roughly 50% as the software was used by a number of manufacturers. Nokia later replaced Symbian with Windows Phone in 2011 when it launched its Lumia smartphone range.
Nokia’s mobile phone business was bought by Microsoft earlier this year for €5.4 billion. When the deal was completed, Microsoft said that it would help “accelerate innovation and market adoption for Windows Phones.”
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This is one of the few countries where the US was involved, once, without anything in it for themselves in terms of Geopolitics, economics or security. In the 1990s the US marine corps in a massive humanitarian operation ended their famine. They repaid them by murdering the UN peacekeepers and dragging their comrades dead bodies through the streets.
Who is they? All of the Somalian people? Country was and still is in a state of civil war, with various opposing militias and warlords.
Calm down Jesus, He meant the people who actually dragged them through the streets. Not once did he tar all of Somalia with doing that. Stop looking for something that’s not their!
I am calm. And don’t call me Jesus.
Two tribes. One loved them the other hated them.
But when they were giving out food they never asked which group they were from. The US has done some good some bad like all big powers way more bad since 2001 (the REAL story behind that jingoistic sniper movie case in pont, Iraq, big brother) but theyre not all bad n i sometimes think they get no thanks for the good they did do. They saved this contenent from tyranny in the 40s and again in the 50s-1990 the latter without firing a shot through pure detterance. I know Africas more complex..the debt the unfair trade..but heres a case they did a selfless good,..and got burned for it.
To be honest, I wasn’t commenting on the UN/US humanitarian efforts, just adding the necessary context that those incidents you mentioned where carried out by specific group… who also largely prevented that humanitarian aid reaching the thousands it needed to. Using “they” was a poor choice when you don’t explain who they were.
It was a beautiful country. But unfortunately Islamic extremists destroyed ot.
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That’s nonsense. The civil war was ongoing for years before any major Islamist groups emerged
For the red thumbers :
Confirmation bias applies to most comments on here.
Ok, Where the feck is Frank? Anyone?
Was thinking the same myself! He said something big was going to happen on Feb 17. No sign of him since before then…?
Same day as year man broke out of prison? Well well well the plot thickens….
I was there in ’92 when the country was wracked by famine and civil war.
A dangerous place for sure, the Irish were the biggest expat community there as ngos tried to save people from dying of hunger.
A year later Irish Army peacekeepers ferried supplies as part of a UN force.
The Americans went in hard – they had no experience of peacekeeping.
They wanted to capture Mohamed Farah Aidid in Blackhawk Down, the leader of one of the clans fighting for control of the country.
I met him – an arrogant so and so.
Somalis were in the past known as the Irish of Africa.
A country with great potential – now bedevilled by Islamic extremism.
Khat
Charles it wud b gr8 if u cud visit somalia
Why?
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