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[–] [email protected] 55 points 5 months ago

If your backup can be reached by a ransomware, it's not a backup.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The joke is on them. I don't back up anything.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Production is for testing and for data archiving. Think of the money we'll save!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Stories like this make me want to retire early. Most bosses just aren't willing to pay for sufficient cybersecurity.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

My boss encrypts nothing and leaves all of the machines switched on overnight, every night.

We got burgled once and someone made off with some postcards and £5 in loose change, overlooking access to a vast trove of customers highly exposing personal, financial, medical and legal documents that has never been purged for over a decade.

He didn't even change anything afterwards!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

To be fair, the common thief isn't into that sort of burglary. They're looking for something they can pawn or use themselves

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Especially something that can be anonymised and moved quickly. For all they know, the computers are heavy/locked down, and may be tracked.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Is your boss Denholm Reynholm?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

They'll never encrypt my 2000 DVDs!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

What methods are they using to locate the backups?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Come attack mine. It’s kept off my property on a hard drive disconnected from everything. Update it every 6 months.