Originally published at: http://boingboing.net/2017/05/17/prophylactic-bricking.html
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I hope they are using that new non-conductive holy water.
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Not that it makes it significantly less crazy, but the picture is from a common spray-everything-with-water-on-the-first-day Orthodox ceremony from the opening of the Internal Ministry’s new Traffic Control Centre in 2013, rather than in response to WannaCry.
http://www.patriarchia.ru/db/text/3338529.html
AFAIK, it’s even not uncommon for local Churches to offer such wet blessings for new houses and the like. Doing it to fix technological problems would be weird, however.
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Some viruses respond better to large quantities of highly-conductive water.
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This Warhammer 30K larp has gotten out of hand
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What a n00b. You should always use non-conductive oil of chrism to bless electrical equipment.
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Yep, I’m sure that’ll help.
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What are the other cities listed next to the clocks? All I can make out is Moscow on the top.
Data Centre Manager: Oh, hey, someone’s coming in today to beef up security on our servers. Major guy.
Sysop: Great, I can use some extra help, what with the ransomware. What’ll he be doing?
Manager: He’ll be spraying special water on the machines.
Sysop: Wait, what?! This is electronic equipment!
Manager: Don’t worry, he also dresses up in elaborate robes. And a hat! And he chants to an invisible man. What more could you ask for? Ivan? Are you listening?
Sysop: [death rattle from hanging himself by a length of Ethernet cable]
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While he’s doing that, I’ll go debug his theology.
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You are missing the rest of the story. After the blessing all the encrypted files decrypted themselves and the ransomware was removed! It’s true!
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I had a fundamentalist Evangelical roommate that would rub holy oil all over the house, which stained the underlying wood. She was upset when I said: “If you have to do that, please don’t put it on wood”.
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The resistance of deionized water is approximately 18.2MΩ.
If the boards are perfectly clean, you can dunk the whole thing into a bucket of deionized water and nothing bad will happen, but that’s a big if.
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Cyberpunk twist:
Ransomware infects powerful Russian Orthodox cleric. Where is your God now?
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