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#1253125 8-Mar-2015 07:51

Jase2985:
KiwiNZ: I would not reward extortion, I would get a professional to try an recover my drive and if that was not successful mark it up to lesson learnt for not taking precautions or back up etc.

so you would essentually pay someone more to try and recover something that is essentially unrecoverable, just to avoid paying the ransom. sounds logical.

if you would be happy loosing years of family photos, thats your choice, but for most thats not really an option

No I use prevention, insurance(back up), safety first best practices. If this scenario occurred I would have a suitably skilled associate attemp recovery. Is that logical?

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#1253126 8-Mar-2015 07:55

KiwiNZ:
Jase2985:
KiwiNZ: I would not reward extortion, I would get a professional to try an recover my drive and if that was not successful mark it up to lesson learnt for not taking precautions or back up etc.

so you would essentually pay someone more to try and recover something that is essentially unrecoverable, just to avoid paying the ransom. sounds logical.

if you would be happy loosing years of family photos, thats your choice, but for most thats not really an option

No I use prevention, insurance(back up), safety first best practices. If this scenario occurred I would have a suitably skilled associate attemp recovery. Is that logical?

And the chance of this 'skilled' associate breaking the encryption In the next 50 years? Almost 0%?

In movie it is achievable within 10 secs.

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#1253133 8-Mar-2015 08:08

nakedmolerat:
KiwiNZ:
Jase2985:
KiwiNZ: I would not reward extortion, I would get a professional to try an recover my drive and if that was not successful mark it up to lesson learnt for not taking precautions or back up etc.

so you would essentually pay someone more to try and recover something that is essentially unrecoverable, just to avoid paying the ransom. sounds logical.

if you would be happy loosing years of family photos, thats your choice, but for most thats not really an option

No I use prevention, insurance(back up), safety first best practices. If this scenario occurred I would have a suitably skilled associate attemp recovery. Is that logical?

And the chance of this 'skilled' associate breaking the encryption In the next 50 years? Almost 0%?

In movie it is achievable within 10 secs.

And that is why I said "attempt" recovery" I did not come down in the last shower.

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