Posts by General Turdgeson 17 publicly visible posts • joined 7 Oct 2023
No cybersecurity professional claims backups or anything is a silver bullet. There is no such thing as silver bullets for securing systems. Information security is an ongoing game of cat and mouse and chess move and countermove.
That does not change that backups should a critical part of one's DRP and BCP.
In the world of data security, backups are paramount, particularly those that are air-gapped or offsite. Yet, the real-world scenario is far from black and white. Consider a financial firm processing transactions non-stop; their RPOs demand backup solutions that, ironically, might be susceptible to the same ransomware plaguing their primary systems. It's easy to occupy the moral high ground and decry ransom payments from a position of safety. However, the stark reality unfolds differently when faced with dire threats to loved ones or the potential collapse of a business empire painstakingly built over years. Life, unlike old developers' binary thinking, is filled with shades of gray.
I get where you're coming from and a big part of me even agrees with you. But paying ransomware attackers, while risky, can sometimes be the only viable option to recover crucial data and prevent further damage, especially in cases where essential services or sensitive information are at stake. Sucks but it's the reality.
What I would rather see is criminal liability for executives who failed to secure vital systems in the first place. Too often they don't face any personal consequences, thus they don't have the imperative to properly secure their systems.
First, I find those Ts & Cs appalling and would never buy a Cybertruck and by extension now, will never buy a Tesla - there's better electric cars on the market anyway.
Now that's out of the way, not being a lawyer myself, I don't see anything illegal about that. You buy a vehicle and the sales contract includes those terms, you accept them. They don't violate any constitutional rights or anything like that. Buying a vehicle is a free market act, and there are other alternatives. I would never agree to terms that I cannot resale and if I do I have to give money back to the seller, that's just lame, thus I will use the free market to make another choice.
This announcement from Tesla just affirms my decisions when I go electric, it's not going to be a Tesla.
It isn't just the UK. The CSAR in the EU would similarly bust privacy in Europe, and they euphemistically named the proposal Child Sex Abuse Regulation so naturally anyone opposing that bill will obviously be against protecting children from sexual abuse. If that gets adopted, you can say goodbye to any online privacy in the EU.
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