Interesting Links for 25-12-2013

[fearmeforiampink]

• BBC News - Giant prehistoric toilet unearthed
  'The 240-million-year-old site is the "world's oldest public toilet"' Though I don't think the saying is usually worded 'you don't poo where you eat', as the article suggests
  (tags: archaeology dinosaurs Interesting poo )
• BBC News - Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The legacy of the teen heroine
  'what is Buffy the Vampire Slayer's legacy and why there are so few "daughters of Buffy": strong and complex fictional creations, who aren't simply the sole female lead in a predominantly-male cast'
  (tags: Interesting Buffy geeky culture sexism gender )
• BBC News - Queen Elizabeth Hospital surgeon suspended over 'branding' claim
  A doctor has been suspended over allegations he "branded" his initials on to a patient's liver.
  (tags: what-the-everliving-fuck WTF humanity;-we-are-a-fucked-up-species medicine unconfirmed-report )
• BBC News - Cryptolocker ransomware has 'infected about 250,000 PCs'
  Made me think; I'd really not care if it hit me. I'd just use another computer to google and ask friends about solving it, and use my antivirus to try and solve it. I've got pretty much fuck all that I care about that I can't retrieve, either from another computer, from cloud storage, or redownload from where I got it originally.
  (tags: computer-viruses security encryption computers money crime )

Comments

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

The thing about Cryptolocker is: You *can't* solve it, not unless you can crack standard encryption. And you can't do that. And the nasty little thing goes looking for network and cloud and attached storage to trash, so having stuff on Dropbox or Drive won't always help if the infected machine is logged into them. An always-connected USB drive with a mirror? Nope, it'll get that too, etc etc etc.

Cryptolocker is nasty.

If you have redundant copies of all your data that *cannot* be accessed by the infected computer, sure, you're fine.

[fearmeforiampink]

Can it remove the reversion options in Dropbox? As, sure, it can corrupt what's in there, but you can just revert to the previous version.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

I do not believe it does that.

(If it's possible for *you* to do that, then it *can*, but I don't think it *does*. If you can't do it, it can't.)

I don't use Dropbox: Does it truly version all your files? Or only documents? If it's "all files", then yeah, Dropbox won't have that problem.

[fearmeforiampink]

Dropbox, on the website rather than in the options in your folder itself, allows you to revert any changes made in the last X days, including updating of files, AIUI.