[Cryptography] Ransomware: Newest viral marketing gimmick ?

Phillip Hallam-Baker phill at hallambaker.com
Thu Nov 12 20:07:36 EST 2015


On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 3:54 PM, Henry Baker <hbaker1 at pipeline.com> wrote:
> At 11:12 AM 11/12/2015, John Ioannidis wrote:
>>l don't understand what the problem is.  What's wrong with simply restoring machines from offline backups?
>>
>>/ji
>>
>>(close-captioned for the sarcasm-impaired)
>
> Sorry to sound so millennial and all, but what's a "backup" ?

What the NSA keep for you.

> What does "offline" mean ?

They won't give it you back when you ask


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