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Frank: Why so many ransomware attacks? Every week I see at least one, and it's been happening for years. Why are top-level credentials getting compromised? Don't they have some kind of safeguard to tell the computers, "if you start locking everything down, stop and alert someone?" Can't these people manage backups and recoveries? It seems like some of them have made a business decision that it's cheaper and easier to just pay the ransom than do their jobs 🤣🤣
And that means the hackers will keep doing it!
And why are the companies or institutions so fragile to this? Can't you still do your work even if your computers go down? Because you should be able to! There was a big pipeline to the East Coast that shut down in 2021 due to a cyberattack on its billing system. It caused a gas panic and fuel shortages! The pipeline was fine, they just couldn't figure out how to adapt their accounting and billing system! https://jalopnik.com/the-colonial-pipeline-was-fine-but-it-was-shutdown-to-1846911689
So shame on the IT firms for not taking security seriously. And double shame on the companies or institutions for not having backup processes. What if there's a real emergency? We used to be able to make things happen with paper and pencil, a little brainpower, and some elbow grease! Now unplug and apparently we all teleport straight to the stone age! Give me a break! 😂
Now there's weird claims AI was able to crack AES-192 using novel math no one understands. Sounds like bull, but this kind of thing is coming sooner or later.
There isn't even a need to computerize certain things, and we still do it. Does my refrigerator really need to talk to my thermostat via AWS us-east-2? And then break if some fiber line gets cut in Newark? We've gone from computer-enabled, to computer-dependent, to computer-addicted.
Better wake up before we get all the way to computer-enslaved!
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