Reco wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 10:51:40AM -0400, Celejar wrote:
> Numbers show that I was incorrect. Let's call it "unlikely" instead of
> "rare". Let the popcon graphs speak for themselves:
>
> https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=firefox-esr
> vs
> https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=openjdk-11
Standard reminder: popcon vastly over-represents
individually-owned laptops and desktops over servers and
corporately-owned anything.
In this case, individuals are sometimes infected with ransomware
by happenstance, but corporates are actually targets.
> It won't by itself, of course. One sure way to beat ransomware is to
> take immutable backups (i.e. unmodifiable by host during and after the
> backup is taken), and as recent history shows us - ransomware victims
> apparently do not use this approach.
Yes indeed.
-dsr-