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Re:The ransomware surge by marcinzm on Friday April 30, 2021 @09:44PM (#27002076)
You still have their data and anyone who bypasses the restoration script can get it so no.
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Re:The ransomware surge by anang on Saturday May 01, 2021 @01:06AM (#27003315)
This is not true. The prevailing opinion is that backups do not need to be modified and that it’s enough to delete at restore time (and to of course not process the data again).
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