Day: August 22, 2019

Tonight’s NYT gives us a piece that can serve as a follow-on to our post earlier today.  Read the article, “Ransomware Attacks Are Testing Resolve of Cities Across America“.

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.