It turns out that the recent bill on countering cyber threats (6688) was prepared in pirated Word 🤦


A new and rather interesting detail has been found out about the scandalous bill No. 6688, which the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, as is known, did not even begin to consider today. In general, this document was prepared in a pirated version of the Microsoft Word text editor. The curiosity was attracted by the user of Facebook Petro Nek.


Having decided personally to familiarize himself with the text of the bill, the user, as he himself says, out of habit first looked in the properties of the file to see the related information. So in the field "Organization" in the properties of the document with the text of the bill is "SPecialiST RePack" - the hacked distribution of the well-known office suite Microsoft Office.

In fact, this kind of reports regarding the use of unlicensed software in Ukrainian government institutions, despite many initiatives to protect copyright and fight against pirated content, is not uncommon. But in this case the situation looks especially "amusing" - the law on censorship on the Internet, which supposedly should improve cybersecurity, is written on pirated Word, where some Trojan, keylogger or some other "infection" may be sitting. And it would all be funny if it was not so sad.

P.S. Tell already someone to deputies or their assistants about the existence of OpenOffice or Google Docs, just do not forget to mention the privacy settings, so that no one accidentally indexes.