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I'm surprised Google hasn't run a Chromebook advertising campaign which just says "use a Chromebook and never care about ransomware again"
by bpodgursky 9y ago
I'm surprised Google hasn't run a Chromebook advertising campaign which just says "use a Chromebook and never care about ransomware again"
- FussyZeus 9y agoYeah and if you use Playskool hammers, you'll never break a thumb again either. That doesn't make Playskool hammers better than regular ones.
- romanovcode 9y agoReminds me of a comic. > https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/cells.png https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/cells.png
- yellowapple 9y agoOn a tangential note, I'm pretty sure the comic is inaccurate; I'm no microbiologist, but I'm about 61% sure that shooting a petri dish full of cancer cells will just splatter the cancer cells all over the place. Now, if you were to light the dish on fire, on the other hand...
- FussyZeus 9y agoI mean, impact with something as fast moving and hot as a bullet? The ones that directly contacted the bullet at least would likely be dead, from the heat, shock, or both. The ones on the rest of the dish would likely be fine.
- heartbreak 9y agoBecause files on Google Drive cannot be encrypted?
- bpodgursky 9y agoGoogle has old versions of all the files, and would immediately revert them when they detected a virus going around.
- mulmen 9y agoWhat if the malware just waits a few months to spring the news that your files are encrypted? Offsite backups don't save you from encryption based attacks.