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Re:Colonial Pipeline Paid Hackers Nearly $5M in Ransom by UncleOxidant on Thursday May 13, 2021 @03:03PM (#27145978)
It's the 3-letter agencies where the expertise lies. Maybe a new agency needs to be created outside of the intelligence agencies?
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Re:Colonial Pipeline Paid Hackers Nearly $5M in Ransom by taurath on Thursday May 13, 2021 @04:59PM (#27147391)
Yes, at least a 16-letter agency consisting of uppercase lowercase letters and special characters would be much better ;)
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Re:Colonial Pipeline Paid Hackers Nearly $5M in Ransom by Sohcahtoa82 on Thursday May 13, 2021 @06:36PM (#27148369)
I like to use foreign letters like ß and ö in my passwords.

Good luck guessing that password. I'm not even German.

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Re:Colonial Pipeline Paid Hackers Nearly $5M in Ransom by walshemj on Thursday May 13, 2021 @04:51PM (#27147284)
Yet another one :-)
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