Baltimore Blew Off Ransomware Demand Only to Find Data Had Never Been Backed Up
The techdirt article author suggest they should have just paid the ransom.<p>Even knowing that paying the ransom is no _guarantee_ you actually recover, and that you have to then harden your system anyway after that (which you should have been doing all along)... I tend to agree.<p>I am a Baltimore resident, and I've also had that opinion since the day after the ransomware attack was announced -- just pay the ransom. (In part because from what I experience of Baltimore City government, i was pretty sure the backups and recovery/continuity plans were going to be basically nonexistent).<p>But on previous HN threads, it was a <i>very</i> unpopular opinion, in the articles right after the attacks were announced, very few in the comments threads seemed to think it was acceptable or a good idea to pay the ransom.<p>I'm curious if that remains true?