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Re:Decrypting encrypted files from Akira ransomware using a ... by _trampeltier on Saturday March 15, 2025 @01:34AM (#43370240)
About tge two buttons thing in factorys. The reason is, you don't have a hand in the machine. So it's not just two buttons, it's two buttons with such distance you have to use two hands. And, usually one of the two buttons, you have to hold in a middle position, if you push the button to much, it does also not work.

Something else, how many times, because of a bad mousepad, whole directorys got moved somewhere. Often you don't even know what you moved, so you can't even search. Special in my last company, we had for sure once a month such a "new" in our data.

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Re:Decrypting encrypted files from Akira ransomware using a ... by econ on Sunday March 16, 2025 @01:35AM (#43377106)
The two buttons also make sure you really want to be doing what you are doing and are not doing other things at the same time. Perhaps multiple keys to launch the nuke would be a better comparison.

I did that drag and drop trick too. I don't even know what I did but a lot of system files and folders ended up on the desktop.

It isn't hard to imagine how features like this came to be and why the product was considered finished. We can obviously do better.

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