"Ransomware is rather Simple, really: Don't do Stupid Things with Critical Control and Infrastructure Equipment" & the Porn "Darknet"
Freely-chosen negligence stemming from Social Media, Gaming and Pornography addiction is the real National Security infrastructure risk. Hackers can’t hack pipelines or meatpackers if workstation computers aren’t wide-open to the internet. - Ann Barnhardt The Market Ticker website explained that "Ransomware is rather simple, really: Don't do stupid things with critical control and infrastructure equipment": As I've said before the real problem isn't "ransomware" per-se; it has no value unless the ransom can be paid and further, unless said infrastructure is connected to the Internet either directly or indirectly (e.g. through some other device) it can't get on the network in the first place. I'd be more than happy to redesign anyone's infrastructure so that this can't happen. You could run Windows XP on that network if you wanted to and, other than by direct, intentional sabotage by an employee nothing's getting in there. But