Ask HN: Thoughts on Preventing or Reducing Ransomware

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One of the biggest problems is the human factor, the user. What can be done to help these humans make less mistakes and fall into less traps?

Would love to hear your thoughts.

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I've become increasingly convinced that the only long-term reliable solution against hypothetical ransomware attacks are airgapped backups. In some industries, there exists the concept of data-diodes that restrict the flow of information in only certain directions.

There almost needs to be a reliable, push-button WORM-filesystem "box" that people can plug into their computer a few times a week to perform a full snapshot. Storage is cheap, it's the implementation that's always the barrier.

limit everyone's access to the good shit.

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