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At the desktop level, this would result in a whole new class of useless support calls. At the SOHO server level, this might be useful. But the alternatives are

by dsr_ 4y ago

At the desktop level, this would result in a whole new class of useless support calls. At the SOHO server level, this might be useful. But the alternatives are already available: unmount the disk, or unmount and unplug it, or unmount, unplug, and carry over to the safe, or unmount, unplug, and carry to the backup site... At the datacenter level, nobody has time to physically touch things.

WalterBright 4y ago
If your drive is write-enabled, and you carry it over to your system to restore from backup, then the ransomware can intervene and encrypt it first. Besides, for the bozos, ship the drives with the write-enable turned on. They won't notice the difference.