A useful new article was linked this morning in one of my tech newsletters. The writer says: “Ransomware is everything bad about humanity distilled into malware—maliciousness, greed, and casual incompetence.” Yes, ransomware is one of those modern scourges — along with climate change, trade wars, impending economic collapse, foolish and divisive political leaders, and more — that we need to add to our list of apocalyptic existential threats for which we must learn how to take mitigating and hopefully preventative measures.