> they're being too cynical. Huh? If anything, they're too optimistic; as you pointed out, it's likely many companies will continue to ignore this and either m

> they're being too cynical. Huh? If anything, they're too optimistic; as you pointed out, it's likely many companies will continue to ignore this and either make backups without improving their security, pay ransoms after the fact or quietly implode when they can't. I agree that 1 is a bit useless (although I took it to mean PGP-for-example, not PGP-specifically), but I didn't see anything particularly relevant to it, aside from what I mentioned above.