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Irish health service hit by cyber attack

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Re: Irish health service hit by cyber attack

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Post by Xplune13 »

belatw wrote: post #7
bilekas wrote: post #5

What kinda scummy scrote you have to be to attack health services during a pandemic. This is a new low.

It’s just business. Don’t hate the player, hate the game.

and this is one of the most backwarded response one can give in my opinion. "Don't hate the player, hate the game" doesn't justify the player's actions. This is not a video game.

I really hate the fact that people will do anything under the name of business. It's more like we're moving towards uncivilized in that regard.

Re: Irish health service hit by cyber attack

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Post by 0xfaded »

amoshi wrote: post #6
kasperni wrote: post #2

Ransomware: Another great "feature" of difficult to trace digital currencies.

Ransomware: Another great "feature" of non-backdoored encryption. See how silly you sound?

This is what-about-ism. There are valid reasons for strong encryption, e.g. protecting the very data that has been compromised here.

Re: Irish health service hit by cyber attack

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Post by htatche »

belatw wrote: post #7
bilekas wrote: post #5

What kinda scummy scrote you have to be to attack health services during a pandemic. This is a new low.

It’s just business. Don’t hate the player, hate the game.

Clearly you aren't affected, else you'd refrain from such blunt capitalist saying.

Re: Irish health service hit by cyber attack

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Post by azangru »

0xfaded wrote: post #13
amoshi wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ransomware: Another great "feature" of non-backdoored encryption. See how silly you sound?

This is what-about-ism. There are valid reasons for strong encryption, e.g. protecting the very data that has been compromised here.

It is not a whataboutism; it's a reductio ad absurdum.

Re: Irish health service hit by cyber attack

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Post by bilekas »

belatw wrote: post #7
bilekas wrote: post #5

What kinda scummy scrote you have to be to attack health services during a pandemic. This is a new low.

It’s just business. Don’t hate the player, hate the game.

Its not business, its ransom, and its a whole different level of ransom. Going after the extremely vulnerable, litterally putting at risk lives. Theres no 'okay' ransom, this is just another all time low.

Re: Irish health service hit by cyber attack

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Post by bilekas »

anonymousDan wrote: post #12

You'd have to think that sooner or later they are going to get into one of the big cloud providers and cause havoc.

(Usually) - Those cloud providers know what they're doing though and de-couple things as much as possible, reducing and entire system compromise. It's their bread and butter, I would much prefer them managing the systems than the HSE.
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