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Alaskan borough dusts off the typewriters after ransomware crims pwn entire network

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The barrier is not the infection, which can be controlled and contained, but the encryption.

A good trapdoor function will leave you with no chance of getting the data back before the heat death of the universe... unless someone comes up with much better cracking tools in a hundred or a thousand years.

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