Learning from Baltimore's disaster, Florida city will pay criminals $600,000 to get free of ransomware attack

Slant · June 21, 2019, 7:05pm

Time to return to paper, ya’ll, for the shit that actually matters. It’s amazingly decentralized! For stupid, fun, ridiculous bullshit, the digital sphere is perfectly capable. Witness: Twitter.

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Learning from Baltimore's disaster, Florida city will pay criminals $600,000 to get free of ransomware attack

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