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To: caww
The frequency of the attacks has overwhelmed the FBI’s Los Angeles field office, which has been unable to properly investigate all of them. The FBI’s surprising advice, according to industry sources: Pay the ransom. After all, the hackers aren’t asking much more than a Cannes hotel tab. In all of the Hollywood extortion cases, the hackers demanded less than $80,000. A law enforcement source says that in California, losses would need to exceed $50,000 for the U.S. Attorney’s office to prosecute, thus keeping the FBI from pursuing most of these cases.

How about have a backup of your data and software and just give the extorters the finger and wipe the drive and restore? I know it will take some work, but it's certainly cheaper than $80,000. Of course if you are a Hollywood liberal which by definition means you are stupid, you probably don't do backups.

34 posted on 05/13/2017 12:07:30 AM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: Swordmaker

“Backup”

HAHAHAHAHA!!!! Users don’t do backups. They expect some nameless faceless entity somewhere to do that for them. If backups do occur, they work tirelessly to turn them off.


39 posted on 05/13/2017 3:35:20 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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