BONUS: The Surprising Origins of Ransomware
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What Is Ransomware?
Ransom ware is hen someone takes a disal system hostage and holds it for ransom. At that point, you can either pay up and hope that they send the description key so that you get all your files back or you can spend literally years of expensive computing time to try and crack that code. For most people, that's not going to be a good option. If you've got regular back ups, you can kind of just tell the ransomers to bug her off, and restore your data from those back ups. You don't have to worry about trying to decript yor hardware or your software. So that's command line heroes. And if you're not drawn in by
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