Travis on Nostr: Found this article from May 2005 calling “ransomware” a scam. Which, I mean, it ...

Found this article from May 2005 calling “ransomware” a scam. Which, I mean, it is. How to combat this fancy new attack? “Physical backups should be made of all critical data, he said, and stored in a different place than with the computer.” Imagine that. Exactly what I’ve been saying. https://web.archive.org/web/20050816022754/http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/internet/05/25/ransomware/index.html