March 2014 - photo assignment - Security

[QuietOne]

My more serious entry for the theme. A few months ago we took most of the computers off the 'net, except for software and security updates. Not that I can't rebuild systems that have been hit by malware, but it's a PITA. I'm expecting the latest ransomware will be more widely imitated, not because it's a new concept (first go round for me was the 80s) but because they made money off of it. So I have a desktop and a laptop that run Ubuntu as an operating system, and those are the ones we use for 'net surfing. No email address books online. Email client to download messages. Weekly backups for everything, on the 'net or not. Everything downloaded gets scanned. Anything moved between systems is done via thumb drive. End result? If a piece of malware demands, "your money or your hard drive" I shrug, wipe the drive and reload the operating system and a couple of data files.

[ericmark]

So no Photoshop Cloud for you then!