Colonial Pipeline Paid Hackers Nearly $5M in Ransom

Re:Colonial Pipeline Paid Hackers Nearly $5M in Ransom by hangonhn on Thursday May 13, 2021 @12:44PM (#27144298)

> More charitable reading is that the encryption key was sent over, and they started restoring with that but using standard OSS tooling.

That would make a lot more sense but I also bet there's a non-zero chance that in a day some dumb media outlet will conflate those tools as "hacker tools" and the headline will be "Hacker tools used in Colonial pipeline hack available freely on Internet. News at 10."

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Re:Colonial Pipeline Paid Hackers Nearly $5M in Ransom by Red_Leaves_Flyy on Thursday May 13, 2021 @03:14PM (#27146123)

These inane arguments didn't kill GTA, or virtually anything else. How are they going to kill OSS that hasn't needed mainstream appeal and still doesn't? So, maybe some high school kids end up on the github pages and become 1337 hackers? Quite a stretch..

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