Re:'We have your porn collection': The rise of extortionware
by yjftsjthsd-h on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @03:38PM
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Isn't the takeaway "never store or do anything on company hardware that you want to keep to yourself"? I wouldn't trust personal material to a company laptop even if it was encrypted.
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Re:'We have your porn collection': The rise of extortionware
by thomastjeffery on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @03:52PM
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Yes, but my main concern was the data from my password manager, which existed elsewhere.
I don't remember for certain, but I may have set my password store to be permanently open, which leaves a copy of the encryption key in the user directory.
Really, the practice should already be, "if you have data you care about, then always have offsite backups".