The University of Utah just footed a $457,000 ransomware bill

Those that can't do-- teach.
Well, that statement seems to apply here doesn’t it. Looks like any IT or computer students would be better off asking the company this university paid to fix the situation for an apprenticeship!
 
Amazingly enough, this became the topic of discussion as the restaurant breakfast table a few days ago and very little discussion it was commented on that none of us would knowingly send our children to any college or university that could not perform security of it's data. As one of our well known IT members said "there is no reason that they are not doing regular and complete back ups AND there is no reason that all of this data could not be designed to run "off line" without the need for any internet connections. I had to laugh, remembering so many years when there were no networks, much less an internet. We did have "sneaker-net", which worked just fine for a long time. He made the best point of the day.
 
I'd like the US and other countries to outlaw these payments. The attacks happen because there's money in it. Remove the money and they'll turn to other opportunities.

I'd also be in favor of at least occasional extreme law enforcement and/or military response (in the case of attacks on military infrastructure, cities, etc.) Letting some of the perpetrators who may feel they are untouchable because they live in a non-extradition country know they are not out of say rendition or drone missile range might go a long way towards dampening enthusiasm for this industry.
I could not agree more.
 
We never give in to terrorist demands! Non concessions! If they are holding people hostage, but money is another thing entirely....
 
There were no "rumors", easily disproven or not, in that Fox article. You shouldn't correct one piece of misinformation by spreading another. The Fox piece was talking about Obama golfing immediately after the beheading of James Foley, not the Jordanian pilot. This fact was confirmed by Obama himself, and reported by many media outlets:


Lol, talk about 'easily disprovable rumors' ...

FYI that article you linked references an event from 2014 so I fail to see how that has anything to do with a purported event in 2009 the previous commentator was talking about.

If you are going to have a retort, at least make sure the dates match. At this point you are just pulling up additional irrelevant points to a comment that was already off topic.

It sounds good in theory. In practice, the government would create a nightmare mishmash of tens of thousands of expensive, unnecessary, out-of-date, and sometimes counterproductive regulations ... then once every couple of decades, dive back into it to make it worse.

Well for starters, you wouldn't have congress making the regulations. You'd likely start a new sub-organization under the DHS, military, or something similar to the FCC. That would enable them to react quickly. They would be appointed and approved by congress so they would be held up to basic standards as well.

"unnecessary, "

$109 billion says otherwise. Of course, that's just the yearly impact.

"expensive"

Not by a long shot. A lot of hacks are perpetrated due to poor security policy. Many changes would just be operational changes and would not require additional investment. There would likely only be a few industries subject to stricter security requirements and those would be one's where data security is an absolute requirement.

It's probably wise that I should point out that the government already regulates many digital industries so a majority of your points have already been rendered moot. For example, bitcoin. You can't buy bitcoin without verifying ID. The PC industry as a whole still has to go through FCC approval for radio frequency testing. Companies are required to use lead free solder. Did these become outdated? Nope, not at all.

Lol, talk about 'easily disprovable rumors' ...

You mean aside from the 1,000 page senate report, the Mueller investigation, multiple of Trump's cohorts going to jail and making admissions in court, and the FBI, CIA, and DHS's confirmation that such a campaign did indeed take place? But yeah, keep believing the guy who defrauded students, defrauded a charity (and now cannot legally run one in New York State), praises dictators, constantly attacks our democracy, surrounds himself with sexual predators and criminals, attempted to extort a foreign ally for personal gain, ect, ect ,ect.

Flynn Thing
Manafort Thing
Tillerson Thing
Sessions Thing
Kushner Thing
Wray Thing
Morgan, Lewis, & Bockius "Russian Law Firm of the Year" Thing
Carter Page Thing
Roger Stone Thing
Felix Sater Thing
Boris Epshteyn Thing
Rosneft Thing
Gazprom Thing (see above
Sergey Gorkov banker Thing
Azerbaijan Thing
"I Love Putin" Thing
Lavrov Thing
Sergey Kislyak Thing
Oval Office Thing
Gingrich Kislyak Phone Calls Thing
Russian Business Interest Thing
Emoluments Clause Thing
Alex Schnaider Thing
Hack of the DNC Thing
Guccifer 2.0 Thing
Mike Pence "I don't know anything" Thing
Russians Mysteriously Dying Thing
Trump's public request to Russia to hack Hillary's email Thing
Trump house sale for $100 million at the bottom of the housing bust to the Russian fertilizer king Thing
Russian fertilizer king's plane showing up in Concord, NC during Trump rally campaign Thing
Nunes sudden flight to the White House in the night Thing
Nunes personal investments in the Russian winery Thing
Cyprus bank Thing
Trump not Releasing his Tax Returns Thing
the Republican Party's rejection of an amendment to require Trump to show his taxes thing
Election Hacking Thing
GOP platform change to the Ukraine Thing
Steele Dossier Thing
Sally Yates Can't Testify Thing
Intelligence Community's Investigative Reports Thing
Trump reassurance that the Russian connection is all "fake news" Thing
Chaffetz not willing to start an Investigation Thing
Chaffetz suddenly deciding to go back to private life in the middle of an investigation Thing
Appointment of Pam Bondi who was bribed by Trump in the Trump University scandal appointed to head the investigation Thing The White House going into cover-up mode, refusing to turn over the documents related to the hiring and firing of Flynn Thing
Chaffetz and White House blaming the poor vetting of Flynn on Obama Thing
Poland and British intelligence gave information regarding the hacking back in 2015 to Paul Ryan and he didn't do anything Thing
Agent MI6 following the money thing
Trump team KNEW about Flynn's involvement but hired him anyway Thing
Let's Fire Comey Thing
Election night Russian trademark gifts Things
Russian diplomatic compound electronic equipment destruction Thing
let's give back the diplomatic compounds back to the Russians Thing
Let's Back Away From Cuba Thing
Donny Jr met with Russians Thing
Donny Jr emails details "Russian Government's support for Trump" Thing
Trump's secret second meeting with his boss Putin Thing

Yep, it's a total nothing burger if you are completely abject from reality.

This president is bringing out an entirely new psychosis for his voting base.
 
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like how obama spoke on behalf of the world in 2009 and said they wont pay 3 million to the captor's of the Jordanian pilot, then 10 minutes after his speech the pilot was burned to death while hung in a cage in a middle eastern dessert. obama went to play golf by the way soon after. so you want a law prohibiting payment to hackers, and you think it will stop them from doing acts of hacking... rigghtttt.....

So, you went through this ludicrous exercise in horse manure just to blame Obama??

It seems you're trying hard to distract from Trump's daily golf outings while 177,000 (and counting) Americans have died due to his criminal, colossal intemperance and indifference!

Nice try.
 
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