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If you give them kudos for not paying the ransom, it's also worth considering not switching away from the small ISP you chose because they were doing things rig
by lucb1e 5y ago
If you give them kudos for not paying the ransom, it's also worth considering not switching away from the small ISP you chose because they were doing things right. Otherwise they might as well have not done the morally right thing and given y'all better service.
Though, of course, I do understand your conundrum. Perhaps there's some middle ground, where for anything that really needs the uptime you have a (mobile) fallback? Still annoying if there are outages on non-essential lines but perhaps better than forcing them into paying the criminals.
- JackMcMack 5y agoI agree, maybe my wording about the situation could have been better. I fully support them in their handling of the attacks. Paying the ransom would in no way guarantee the attacks would stop, now or in the future. My phone's 4G hotspot works (via another provider), but it does have limits of course. I don't mind paying a bit for extra data, but there is a limit to the amount of extra time and effort I can spend on this problem. I can't keep apologising indefinitely to my clients about bad audio/video calls if none of my coworkers have the same problems with their ISP. Sibling comment did have a good idea: to tunnel my traffic through an OVH instance. A great opportunity to try out Wireguard.