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.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.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).But on previous HN threads, it was a very 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.I'm curious if that remains true?