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On the matter of the British Library cyber incident
- jruohonen 3y agoLesson 4: No honor among thieves; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38430831 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38430831
- dash2 3y agoThis is really interesting and insightful. My only question is the assumption that the BL hack is damaging to society. A cynical response might be that a bunch of assorted medievalists, George Eliot scholars etc. didn't get access to their books... maybe some of them gave up and got jobs as plumbers, and GDP actually went up?