Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack

From	"J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG@255soft.uk>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc, comp.os.linux.advocacy, alt.windows7.general, alt.comp.os.windows-10
Subject	Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack
Date	2019-07-30 02:26 +0100
Organization	255 software
Message-ID	<QHuUGIHwy5PdFwl5@255soft.uk> (permalink)
References	(1 earlier) <qhk97p$9pn$2@neodome.net> <95o01g-506.ln1@Telcontar.valinor> <t+1L4eOeaiPdFwRv@255soft.uk> <qhlqh0$nu4$1@dont-email.me> <87ftmomy7g.fsf@usenet.ankman.de>

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In message <87ftmomy7g.fsf@usenet.ankman.de>, Andreas Kohlbach 
<ank@spamfence.net> writes:
[]
>French often use .fr, Germans .de, Spanish .es, British co.uk or org.uk,

And .ac.uk (academic), and I think a few others (.me.uk maybe). And a 
few years ago, just plain .uk - with no intervening bit - became 
available. (I took mine out not long after that; since I'm not a company 
or organisation, I didn't want .co.uk or .org.uk, but since there was a 
tiny chance I might sometime want to be, I didn't want a .me.uk or 
similar individual-type indication. It's a cross between a vanity domain 
and wanting to have something independent of service providers so I 
don't have to tell everyone about change of email if I fall out with a 
provider. [I've made sure the domain is registered to me not the company 
who handle my registration and email, so I can switch reasonably easily 
if I fall out with _them_.])

>Canadians .ca and on and on. Suppose they are proud of it. They are
>otherwise free to use .com or others. But if a page is in French (unless
>from Quebec) it will most likely have an .fr or .ma (Morocco) TLD.

I've always thought .com (etc.) should be for companies (or 
organisations, etc.) who are, or see that they might be in the near 
future, international, with ones that don't being .co.uk or .org.us or 
whatever as appropriate. With ones that were set up before the country 
domains really got going being allowed to continue as just .com, though 
maybe only for say 10 or 15 years, unless they could show they _do_ 
operate in more than one country.
>
>Trump failed in his election campaign. The slogan should have been "Make
>.us great again". ;-)

(-:
-- 
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

At the age of 7, Julia Elizabeth Wells could sing notes only dogs could hear.

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Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> - 2019-07-06 10:36 +0200
  Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack Jean-David Beyer <jeandavid8@verizon.net> - 2019-07-27 22:13 -0400
    Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack POSHLYAK <POSHLYAK@localmail.com> - 2019-07-28 02:22 +0000
      Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack Keith Nuttle <Keith_Nuttle@sbcglobal.net> - 2019-07-27 22:50 -0400
      Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack "Snowden" <Edmail@fromrussiawithlove.net> - 2019-07-28 08:49 -0500
        Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack "Anonymous" <anon@anon.com> - 2019-07-28 08:50 -0500
          Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2019-07-28 16:30 +0200
            Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2019-07-28 23:50 +0100
              Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2019-07-29 01:37 +0100
                Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2019-07-29 03:01 +0100
                Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2019-07-29 11:33 +0100
                Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2019-07-29 11:58 +0100
                Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack Shadow <Sh@dow.br> - 2019-07-29 08:12 -0300
                Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2019-07-29 13:27 +0200
                Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack "anonymous" <anonymous@rip.ax.lt> - 2019-07-29 07:04 -0500
                Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca (The Doctor) - 2019-07-29 13:34 +0000
                Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2019-07-29 15:45 +0200
                Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack "Anonymous" <anon@anon.com> - 2019-07-29 09:31 -0500
                Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2019-07-29 20:54 +0200
                Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack Char Jackson <none@none.invalid> - 2019-07-30 10:42 -0500
                Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack Char Jackson <none@none.invalid> - 2019-07-30 10:40 -0500
                Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2019-07-29 08:21 -0400
                Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2019-07-29 15:47 +0200
                Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2019-07-29 15:03 +0100
                Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2019-07-29 12:58 +0200
                Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack "Anonymous" <anon@anon.com> - 2019-07-29 06:59 -0500
              Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2019-07-28 23:52 -0400
                Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2019-07-29 12:11 +0100
                Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2019-07-29 15:34 -0400
                Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2019-07-30 00:00 +0200
                Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2019-07-30 02:30 +0100
                Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2019-07-30 11:57 +0200
                Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2019-07-30 16:18 +0000
                Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2019-07-30 13:12 +0000
                Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2019-07-30 15:02 -0400
                Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2019-07-31 12:52 +0200
                Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2019-07-31 14:59 -0400
                Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2019-07-30 00:35 +0000
                Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG@255soft.uk> - 2019-07-30 02:26 +0100
                Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2019-07-30 15:08 -0400
              Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack "Anonymous" <anon@anon.com> - 2019-07-29 06:57 -0500
                Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2019-07-29 07:58 -0400
                Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack "Anonymous" <anon@anon.com> - 2019-07-29 07:08 -0500
                Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2019-07-29 08:13 -0400
                Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2019-07-29 15:48 +0200
                Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack Bobbie Sellers <bliss@mouse-potato.com> - 2019-07-29 08:32 -0700
                Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack "Anonymous" <nobody@mixmin.net> - 2019-07-29 11:12 -0500
                Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack Bobbie Sellers <bliss@mouse-potato.com> - 2019-07-29 09:50 -0700
        Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack Chuck Rhode <CRhode@LacusVeris.com> - 2019-07-28 11:18 -0500
    Re: Florida city reportedly fires IT director after being forced to pay $460G in ransomware attack Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2019-07-29 15:36 +0000

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