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Disabling internet access only prevents exfiltration. Ransomware, for instance, wouldn't need to access the internet at all if it used hard-coded public keys to
by judge2020 3y ago
Disabling internet access only prevents exfiltration. Ransomware, for instance, wouldn't need to access the internet at all if it used hard-coded public keys to encrypt content.
- diogenes4 3y agoPresumably exfiltration would work for most people, no? It is quite unusual to have physical access to a computer, and if you do generally all bets are off.
- judge2020 3y agoThis is just the hypothetical situation where ransomware is a static binary that doesn't care about any data exfiltration - it just encrypts files in-place with a pre-defined public key. So no exfiltration, physical or over the internet, is required.
- diogenes4 3y agoAh, i see your point.