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So..."worse than ransomware?"

• dirtyhippiefree 3y ago
  You can pay extortionists to get your data back. If your phone automatically factory resets, all the money in the world won’t recover your data…sadly worse than ransomware…
• serf 3y ago
  from a data loss perspective, sure. from an extortion perspective i'd rather have my data wiped.
• PeterisP 3y ago
  Well, no, ransomware is worse than losing all data on the device, since ransomware gangs generally also destroy your backups and also attempt extortion with threats to publish your data. All backups help against accidental destruction and incidents like in this article, but for ransomware protection most cloud storage solutions won't help you, you need either offline or append-only backups.
• gruez 3y ago
  Technically yes, but I suspect the ransomware comparison was brought up to paint how malicious it is. Otherwise the better analogy would be dropping your phone from 50ft.