Comment by afdbcreid
20 hours ago
Nice idea, but I don't think you would want e.g. your hospital to have their systems suddenly turn off.
20 hours ago
Nice idea, but I don't think you would want e.g. your hospital to have their systems suddenly turn off.
Absolutely they do. Off today is better than a ransomware attack tommorrow.
I think this is an instance of the trolley problem. So, don't expect to find a correct answer.
Paying a ransomware attack tomorrow is very much better, than not having critical medical data for the emergency right now. Of course not having a public facing medical database based on PHP, would be even better, but that might not be a decision that they are able to make right now.
Either way you're having a day or more of downtime. No reason to assume today is worse than tomorrow.
Turning off is better than silent data manipulation by an attacker.
But not than assessment and controlled shutdown or access minimization. Turning off critical systems can result in deaths.
This feels like it might be the trolley problem in real life.
Turning it off may cause deaths. Letting it get ransomwared may cause more. Do you pull the lever to turn it off?
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