ProtonMail pays $6k ransom, gets taken out by DDoS anyway

Post by littletimmy » Sun, Nov 08, 2015, 5:06 AM UTC

geofft wrote: post #68

rcurry wrote: post #32

It is always a temptation to an armed and agile nation To call upon a neighbour and to say: -- "We invaded you last night--we are quite prepared to fight, Unless you pay us cash to go away." And that is called asking for Dane-geld, And the people who ask it explain That you've only to pay 'em the Dane-geld And then you'll get rid of the Dane! It is always a temptation for a rich and lazy nation, To puff and look impo…

Poems by the man who romanticized the colonization of my grandparents' country are always cool, but the logic doesn't hold up. If you're not as well-armed as the British Empire, and you very much do not have the resources to defeat the Dane, it's nice that the end of the game is oppression and shame, but you're going to lose well before you even get to endgame.

Post by nikanj » Sun, Nov 08, 2015, 5:20 AM UTC

jacquesm wrote: post #29

lqdc13 wrote: post #24

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I think cryptolocker actually decrypted the FS after the ransom was paid. So sometimes it works. Actually, it makes no sense to not follow through because that is their business model.

Let me make a spam analogy: the reason we are drowning in spam is because it works. If even 0.00001% of the spam recipients enters into a financially beneficial relationship with the spammers then everybody will get spammed. The only way spam will go away is if everybody will finally stop responding to spam. So you just simply do not pay extortion fees unless you want to become part of the problem. In the case of an…

Post by adiM » Sun, Nov 08, 2015, 5:23 AM UTC

littletimmy wrote: post #101

geofft wrote: post #68

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Poems by the man who romanticized the colonization of my grandparents' country are always cool, but the logic doesn't hold up. If you're not as well-armed as the British Empire, and you very much do not have the resources to defeat the Dane, it's nice that the end of the game is oppression and shame, but you're going to lose well before you even get to endgame.

If you are talking about India, it wasn't a "country" before the British. It was a mixture of disparate kingdoms and sultanates. Not to mention that before the British, most of India was under Muslim colonizers i.e. the Mughals. The Indians have always been a conquered people, it is only in the last 70 years that they have had freedom; you should thank the British for it.

Post by SHIT_TALKER » Sun, Nov 08, 2015, 5:38 AM UTC

jacquesm wrote: post #100

SHIT_TALKER wrote: post #95

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When you are weak, you take what you can get. It was much better to have been colonized by the British, who actually had an interest in nation-building and respect for law and human rights (to the extent they deemed their subjects capable of handling them), than, say, to have become the personal fiefdom of Leopold II of Belgium.

That's a false dichotomy if there ever was one. The alternative to being colonized by the British was not to be colonized by Belgium but not to be colonized at all.

Post by SHIT_TALKER » Sun, Nov 08, 2015, 5:42 AM UTC

ashishchaudhary wrote: post #99

SHIT_TALKER wrote: post #91

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The British created your grandparents' country and you should be thankful to them for it. It was nothing but fortunate for India to have sensible men like Charles James Napier working to put an end to barbarism like Sati: A story for which Napier is often noted involved Hindu priests complaining to him about the prohibition of Sati by British authorities. This was the custom of burning a widow alive on the funeral py…

What you say is true to your name. Take a look at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7CW7S0zxv4