Phones of any flavor? You kind of HAVE to leave network boot on for them.
Wait! What?
My phone boots just fine. And I have no network here (unless I want to stand in that "special spot" in my front yard to get a weak 5G bar).
Distortion was invented (discovered) by a touring blues bass guitarist who knocked an output tube loose. One half of a push-pull amp stage.
Many European countries the beat cops do not carry guns.
Didn't see an y support for this in the linked report.
They also spend more time training.
A valid point. But it works to make the cost per officer higher. Reducing the number a given budget will support. The current emphasis is now on "more cops". I'm not certain this is the right way to go, given the population density of the USA (lower) compared to that of European countries. "A cop on every corner" when corners might be miles apart just won't cut it here. So John Q. Public will have to take responsibility for his own defense. Same holds true of "no go" neighborhoods in urban areas here. Smart cops is what we need. But part of "smart" includes technology. Like Flock.
Now, if he had any smarts, he'd let it be known that a "failure to deliver decrypted files" would be met by the same Mossad group that knocked on Gerald Bull's door. Forget about repairing file systems. This is a well demonstrated skill set.
I would assume places felt unsure they'd really get their data back by paying the scammers who locked their files down in the first place.
There are plenty of stories about people who paid the ransoms and never got their data unlocked afterwards.
From TFS:
By falsely claiming to decrypt ransomware without paying off the ransomers,
Sounds like Pinhasi was just playing negotiator between the ransomers and the victim. And may not have had a data recovery capability himself. So the end result would have been the same: No data recovered. Ransomers take the (smaller) money and run. Does Pinhasi warrant his service? Get your data or your money back?
There ARE legit services that will negotiate with ransomers. But the ransomers don't like working through them. To the point that they will do checks on people who present themselves as IT from the victim company. But are in fact professional negotiators.
Did it work?
No. They spent some millions of dollars to re-release all the engineering. And then discovered that VB and other stuff wasn't up to the job of doing natural language processing and generating source. They re-re-released the engineering documents and hired a warehouse full of coders to translate English requirements into C source.
Some decades ago, I worked on an automated testing and manufacturing system. All of the engineering source was produced in plain old ASCII. It worked well, until the Microsoft consultants started showing up* and rewriting our requirements documents. In the end, they had convinced management to use Excel for the generation of what was essentially source code. Talk about the wrong tool.
*This was when I asked my boss how they even got in the front door. Seeing as how we had armed guards for the facility.
none of that silly Enlightenment bullshite.
Caste system?
Perhaps we need our own Cockroach Party.
it will make all code public domain
Trade secret.
go public on the Nasdaq under the ticker ANT
more American
IOW, can't just let the H1-B expire and return them.
someone who must "speak English,"
Sorry Texas. Y'all on yer own now.
Just adds the word "Sucker!" at the end.
When humans publish duplicate-riddled writeups without reading them,
Are you certain that
A sure fire way to introduce politics into development and support efforts. And have them flip-flop at every change in the administration. DEI, anti-DEI, DEI,
We could impute income for any profit making venture that "receives" free stuff without providing remuneration. Want an offsetting credit for that? Contribute to the applicable 501(c)3.
I haven't lost my mind -- it's backed up on tape somewhere.
