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Usually the common vulnerability is a combination of Outlook and Active Directory. Outlook will happily execute whatever users click upon and AD lets them steal their credentials, to simplify things.

You’re welcome. It was a pleasure to set someomes ideas about Mr Gates right.

Encryption alone won’t prevent ransomware to encrypt it again. The original files need to be readable after all, so they are either unencrypted at boot or appear unencrypted to the (infected) client by machine/session key management. Nevertheless, adding an addittional, "“hostile” encryption layer will make them unreadable. The reasonable thing would be not to use a monocultural, standard setup that is known to be vulnerable to that kind of attack and first of all to get rid of fucking Outlook which has always been a dumpster fire.

Wikipedia for a beginning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standardization_of_Office_Open_XML I remember The Register having a more detailed (and pretty snarky) article about it back then, but I didn’t search for it yet.

Let me assure you that the original board that was voting for Open Office’s proposal was absolutely pissed off, short of dissolving but eventually unable to revert the decision because of it’s formal correctness.

…and bribed the represenatives of the “new” IETF members as well as their governments to vote for Microsoft’s standard. The latter was, of course, a matter strictly between “business partners” and probably barred behind NDAs, so “legal” as long as nobody would blow the wistle.

Ransomware attack are successful mostly against MS Active Directory and Ourlook based setups.

There are some people who míght learn from a ransomware attack. Only if it personally hits them, of course.

“bribed” is a gross simplifiction of the almost hilariously evil plot they pulled to get OOXML certified. They actually bribed a couple of smaller nation states to become IETF members and vote for Microsoft’s standard. It was a major scandal back in the day but formally legal.

This sound so horrible, I might finally “upgrade” to 11.

Even by Trump’s standards it seems quite unhinged, indeed. Sounds bat shit crazy, tbh.

HN = Hacker News in this context, just in case anyone else wonders.

Yes. 300 second places, who cares? Maybe there’s an aftermarket for data Google already has stolen. Might be that Google’s prices are too high for resellers.

As if this hadn’t been obvious the very moment they started connecting their massive amount of same model cameras to servers under their own regime (aka " the cloud"). And as if nobody told you so.

Behold the miracle of the slipping clutch, millenials. See It working without being digital and all without an app by the ancient secrets of mechanics!

Nothing a slipping clutch won’t fix. There already are self-closing doors everywhere. Maybe not in cars but in all sorts of vehicles and everywhere in buildings.

What? My mother was a saint!

Meta got sued and had to pay €1,500 per user in a ruling of a supreme state court which can’t be appealed. There’s a wave of lawsuits expected to follow because this actually means every Facebook user (for now, it might be possible that non-users whose data were also collected will sue, too) can easily sue now. I remember Meta boasting to have the data of some 10M Germans for targeted advertising. Unfortunately that’s hardly robust evidence but I hope they’ll sue them to hell and back.

You can vote me down as much as you want. You still have no clue of chemistry - or anything else you’re babbling about. Morons.

None of the things you’ve described increase the carbon output.

Right. Because none of it is a fucking coal mine. Which is the only thing that can provide “carbon output”. Except a diamond mine, of course.