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Re:The British Library URL has been offline due to cyberatta... by emmender2 on Monday December 18, 2023 @02:12PM (#38686836)
attack the incentives...

have dedicated govt agencies going after the crypto money trail, and disrupt the theives. this happened in the pipeline hack.

otherwise, the thieves will continue thieving with nothing to stop them.

thats why we have the police and other such agencies in the real world.

when thieves go after the commons (libraries/hospitals) - we the public taxpayers have every incentive to demand action of our govt as there is nobody else who can help here.

why are the british taxpayers not demanding action ?

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Re:The British Library URL has been offline due to cyberatta... by toyg on Monday December 18, 2023 @03:26PM (#38687699)
Demanding from whom? The current government could not cook an egg.
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Re:The British Library URL has been offline due to cyberatta... by javajosh on Monday December 18, 2023 @08:14PM (#38690590)
With enough study and preparation, and enough funding, I bet the current government could, in fact, cook an egg.
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Re:The British Library URL has been offline due to cyberatta... by eviks on Tuesday December 19, 2023 @12:39AM (#38692254)
They could break an egg with that level of commitment, cooking it is another thing altogether
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Re:The British Library URL has been offline due to cyberatta... by tonyedgecombe on Tuesday December 19, 2023 @06:20AM (#38694281)
I have some doubt that the current prime minister has ever cooked an egg.
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Re:The British Library URL has been offline due to cyberatta... by toyg on Tuesday December 19, 2023 @02:21PM (#38700199)
The most likely outcome is, in fact, that they would pay £60m to a company (which happens to be run by well-connected friends of the Prime Minister), for them to cook an egg - just to discover 6 months later that such company never owned a pan and never cooked anything.
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Re:The British Library URL has been offline due to cyberatta... by eviks on Tuesday December 19, 2023 @12:40AM (#38692260)
What are the incentives to not have a proper backup system and also not having digitized everything already?
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Re:The British Library URL has been offline due to cyberatta... by emmender2 on Tuesday December 19, 2023 @12:58PM (#38699023)
cost, expense ?

i can buy locks for the doors in my house, but if thieves can break locks, i need the police too to serve as a deterrent. ie, there needs to be a negative incentive for the thieves too.

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