{"591829":{"#nid":"591829","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"WannaCry Update: Microsoft Pushes a \u0022Geneva Convention\u0022 to Thwart Cyberattacks","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EHans Klein, associate professor in the School of Public Policy was quoted in\u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;WannaCry Update: Microsoft Pushes a \u0026ldquo;Geneva Convention\u0026rdquo; to Thwart Cyberattacks\u0026rdquo; for\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003EIEEE Spectrum\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExcerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;In some ways it\u0026rsquo;s a daring move by Microsoft,\u0026rdquo; Klein says. \u0026ldquo;It opens up the question of global regulation of companies like Microsoft. \u0026hellip; If we start talking about global public policy, and Geneva Conventions and industry agreements, suddenly it might not just be the governments that are being asked to behave better\u0026mdash;and possibly with sanctions backing that up. The companies might be asked or required to behave better too. And that\u0026nbsp;might\u0026nbsp;not be a bad thing.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor instance, Klein says, what if Windows XP (whose support Microsoft\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windowsforbusiness\/end-of-xp-support\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eofficially cut off\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;in April 2014) is so broadly adopted around the world that governments begin requiring Microsoft to continue supporting XP regardless of its profitability or un-profitability for the company? What if, in other words, Windows XP has become something closer to a public utility?\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor the full article, read\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/tech-talk\/computing\/it\/wannacry-updates-microsoft-touts-digital-geneva-convention-to-thwart-future-cyberattacks\u0022\u003Ehere.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34508","created_gmt":"2017-05-17 13:35:38","changed_gmt":"2017-05-17 17:16:09","author":"oadebola3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"\u00a0Linda Wills","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/tech-talk\/computing\/it\/wannacry-updates-microsoft-touts-digital-geneva-convention-to-thwart-future-cyberattacks","dateline":{"date":"2017-05-16T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2017-05-16T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"63318":{"id":"63318","type":"image","title":"Hans Klein","body":null,"created":"1449176668","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:04:28","changed":"1497369661","gmt_changed":"2017-06-13 16:01:01","alt":"","file":{"fid":"225883","name":"HANS-KLEIN-DSC_4879_preferred_200x300.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/HANS-KLEIN-DSC_4879_preferred_200x300_1.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/HANS-KLEIN-DSC_4879_preferred_200x300_1.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":37247,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/HANS-KLEIN-DSC_4879_preferred_200x300_1.jpg?itok=ade13cwm"}}},"media_ids":["63318"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}