Comment by jameshart
11 hours ago
This analogy seems to be portraying 'ransomware hackers' as an unstoppable force of nature akin to gravity.
I'm not sure that's a fair analogy.
11 hours ago
This analogy seems to be portraying 'ransomware hackers' as an unstoppable force of nature akin to gravity.
I'm not sure that's a fair analogy.
I think it’s a very fair analogy. The _only_ way to stop them is to make your stuff secure. That’s literally the only way.
Your analogy portrays gravity as a thing that buildings cannot be built to withstand. There are plenty of structurally sound buildings and while there are plenty of secure apps the problem is there’s no incentive to build the latter.
The other side of that spectrum portrays the service providers as pure, negligence-free victims. The truth is probably somewhere in the middle.