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But in a press release today, Nordic Choice said that instead of contacting the hackers and negotiating a ransom for the decryption key that would have unlocked the infected devices, the hotel chose to migrate its entire PC fleet from Windows to Chrome OS.

>But in a press release today, Nordic Choice said that instead of contacting the hackers and negotiating a ransom for the decryption key that would have unlocked the infected devices, the hotel chose to migrate its entire PC fleet from Windows to Chrome OS.

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[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

This can only happen in a world where law enforcement just does not give a shit about actual law enforcement. A sort of clown world, if you will.

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And a world where even basic security isn't a thing until "we're serious about your privacy," which usually happens after a script kiddie figures out that their database and other systems are wide open with "admin/admin" as the login/pass.

[–] [deleted] • 2 pts

And if not that, it's little bobby tables.

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Always sanitize your database queries, kids.

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

Yeah, it's not like there aren't firewalls that log IP addresses, and methods for backtracing those addresses, and no a VPN would not deter actual federal computer security experts if they were motivated to trace a connection, since the feds have demonstrated their ability to do so in the past.

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None of that matters if there isn't basic locked-down security on the systems. Of which there probably wasn't, it wasn't monitored, or no one simply thought it important until the problem occurred.

If I were trying to access a system without permission, I'd probably attempt to destroy logging and other measures as well as recover the wanted data.