OK finally riddle me this, when it comes to coins.
Just unplug the net and it all goes away.....POOF
Submitted by fire with fire on Wed, 10/27/2021 - 1:07pm Great Topic and My Answer is I DID live without one for 40 years
Of all my eccentric opinions, this is the one I have the most confidence in. It is simultaneously my loneliest opinion and the one that is most puzzling to both RL friends and message board interlocutors:
Digital technology is the worst mistake made by humanity ever.
Among an infinity of perverse realities of the Digital State, the most ironic is the concept of ransomware. For the job I quit a couple months ago, I was required to take cyber security training in the form of about 65 four minute cartoons. Each episode of the series took an actual case story from the news, and then showed a fictionalized version of how it happened to real people at real jobs. The lesson of every single edition of the series was simple:
You cannot prevent hacking. To cover your ass, you need to follow the protocols that make it more difficult (but not impossible) for hackers to get into your "secure" computer system.
Virtually nobody wants to face up to what that means. We live in chaos already.
This past summer, one of the TV stations that I represented as a union rep before mandatory vaccination ended my working life, Cox Communications, got hacked and received ransomware demands. To my bewilderment, Cox management pretended that nothing was wrong while they scrambled desperately to stay in business while locked out of their own computers. All employees were forbidden from saying anything about it, even as the orders were delivered by phone, text and personal email messages.
They were compromised for over a month. It made some news, but their blackout strategy was respected by all those honest folks in at the Main Stream Outlets.
The article I link above mentions that it is impossible to assess how many companies have either paid off the ransomware criminals quietly or toughed it out like Cox did.
There is no way to stop this the than unplugging the fucking internet, which now in one generation has destroyed everything in its path.
Luddites of the world unite! All you have to lose is your cell phone bill!
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