From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.43.146.73 with SMTP id jx9mr2164212icc.7.1386843618900; Thu, 12 Dec 2013 02:20:18 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.49.122.42 with SMTP id lp10mr31296qeb.17.1386843618869; Thu, 12 Dec 2013 02:20:18 -0800 (PST) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.bbs-scene.org!border4.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!ie8no10550747qab.0!news-out.google.com!9ni7692qaf.0!nntp.google.com!p15no21125935qaj.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 02:20:18 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <9f50bb3f-c2f2-4b15-bc18-dc5b397493c1@googlegroups.com> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=193.59.74.204; posting-account=nuF4hQoAAADjc2KKS1rOkzxWWEmaDrvx NNTP-Posting-Host: 193.59.74.204 References: <9f50bb3f-c2f2-4b15-bc18-dc5b397493c1@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Encrypt your Archived Sourcecode. From: darkestkhan Injection-Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 10:20:18 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:17992 Date: 2013-12-12T02:20:18-08:00 List-Id: On Sunday, December 8, 2013 11:53:31 AM UTC, Austin Obyrne wrote: > The reasons why you should do this are increasing day by day. The latest= one is malware called =93CryptLocker=94. This gets into your computer aft= er they have conned you into opening an email or PDF attachment =96 it then= encrypts all your important data including your important sourcecode. The= next step is to hold you to ransom until you pay a =91bitcoin=92 fee to ha= ve them unlock it again for your use. For all problems with Windows (and especially with problem of malware on Wi= ndows) there is solution - it is called GNU/Linux. And if you don't like it= you can always try one of the *BSDs. What I don't get is why having encrypted backup is supposed to be better th= an simple backup. I would understand if we were talking about Error Correct= ing Codes (like BCH) but encryption is not ECC. darkestkhan