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Not a good trend at all...This will only encourage more thieves...The death penalty is strongly advised here, and entirely justified in my opinion as essential city services were curtailed, thus willfully endangering many lives...And to make it worse:The city hopes the hackers will provide a decryption key — meaning there’s no guarantee that that will happen....Ben
The future is forged on the anvil of history...The interpreter of history wields the hammer... - Unknown author...
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Never, no matter what is at stake, pay a ransom. If you do, it will never end.
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible - Arthur C. Clarke
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That's a hard call to make but it's the right one.Originally Posted by Mike
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Paying up was never even considered as an option when they got me.
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
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It makes me wonder what backup system Riviera Beach City used if any......Ben
The future is forged on the anvil of history...The interpreter of history wields the hammer... - Unknown author...
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Does make one wonderIt makes me wonder what backup system Riviera Beach City used if any...
The jerks did get into my back-ups but that is were they got stuck----they could only encrypt the last back-up and both my backup services had multiple back-up files. In the end I lost very little data.
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
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