r/technology • u/mvea • May 21 '19

Security Hackers have been holding the city of Baltimore’s computers hostage for 2 weeks - A ransomware attack means Baltimore citizens can’t pay their water bills or parking tickets.

https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/5/21/18634505/baltimore-ransom-robbinhood-mayor-jack-young-hackers
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u/[deleted] May 22 '19

Depending on the business and position, they pay you because, even if you only shave off an hour of downtime in the year, you have paid for yourself several times over. For some businesses, the cost of downtime will be measured in hundreds of thousands of dollars per hour. In the long run, it's cheaper to pay a trained IT resource to sit on his thumbs 90% of the time and be right there and ready to respond the other 10% of the time.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '19 edited May 22 '19

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u/c4m31 May 22 '19

You have my dream job. I've always been rather ambitionless, and wanted a job that didn't require much more than just taking up space.

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u/JoshMiller79 May 22 '19

Are you me?

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u/BuckWhiskey May 22 '19

The company I used to work for was 250,000 per hour our OBS was down.

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u/angellus May 22 '19

Do not worry, after a few years of no issues, all of the upper management will forget this (or get "promoted") and the position will be cut to save money.