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		stavros 11 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Decrypting encrypted files from Akira ransomware u... What use is a counterattack if it's immediately fixed? Then absolutely nobody can use it, not even a few experts.

PUSH_AX 11 months ago [–]

You’re making a lot of assumptions about the capability to reconnect and patch/update itself, preface the fix with “keep your machine offline from here in out” and we’re back to fixing it for everyone before that point.

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