It used to be that hackers did it for the fun of it to prove they could breach security. However, once organized crime found out it could be done, they decided to monetize it.
One thing I do not understand is why ransomeware works. Yes, they infect your computer. The infection can be removed. Oh, all your data is encrypted? So where’s your backup?
There is an adage I’ve heard ever since I had my first personal computer in 1980. You don’t have to back up all your data, you only have to back up the files you want to keep.
Baslim the Beggar Premium Member almost 6 years ago
That’s it, Lucy, give them the straight poop, straight from the horse’s … um, behind.
Dtroutma almost 6 years ago
What goes around, comes around, Lucy can come often.
danketaz Premium Member almost 6 years ago
It all works out in the end.
Yontrop almost 6 years ago
We don’t need to know how Lucy got her phone back.
Display almost 6 years ago
A download or a phone dump?
Aussie Down Under almost 6 years ago
Holy crap. You can add " Batman" if you wish the comment to be sarcastic.
sandpiper almost 6 years ago
A depiction of every person’s dream response to hackers, scammers, robo callers, and that ilk.
pschearer Premium Member almost 6 years ago
Trust her that there are two V’s in ‘privy’?
dadoctah almost 6 years ago
Did we miss a chapter?
vaughnrl2003 Premium Member almost 6 years ago
Go ahead and take it a bit further. Make it a public privy.
khmo almost 6 years ago
That was a pretty quick segue from a potential adventure that appeared to be a non-starter.
silverking1953 almost 6 years ago
Anyone for some horse apples down there? Ready or not!
LKrueger41 almost 6 years ago
I hope everything comes out all right!
Linguist almost 6 years ago
Hackers stink !
DanFlak almost 6 years ago
It used to be that hackers did it for the fun of it to prove they could breach security. However, once organized crime found out it could be done, they decided to monetize it.
One thing I do not understand is why ransomeware works. Yes, they infect your computer. The infection can be removed. Oh, all your data is encrypted? So where’s your backup?
There is an adage I’ve heard ever since I had my first personal computer in 1980. You don’t have to back up all your data, you only have to back up the files you want to keep.
Radish... almost 6 years ago
Lucy is so full of it she could run for president.
tripwire45 almost 6 years ago
Did she get her phone back, and if so, did she change her password(s)?
hariseldon59 almost 6 years ago
Where did Danae get the materials to make the new sign?
Dennis Nichols almost 6 years ago
The cartoonist seems angry at his impotence and is moving his metaphors the direction that other online quarrels by the impotent so often move.
JohnHarry Premium Member almost 6 years ago
Me thinks we might be about to find out about spyware.
JudyAz almost 6 years ago
I wonder if she’s a member of the organization set up to preserve wooden toilet seats. You know, the Birch John Society.
WCraft Premium Member almost 6 years ago
This thread is so funny. Love the way it ends! Major Kudos!
Teto85 Premium Member almost 6 years ago
That’s too good for hackers, but have at it Lucy.
Ka`ōnōhi`ula`okahōkūmiomio`ehiku Premium Member almost 6 years ago
Who among us has not the phone from the first hacker scam they received?
Cornelius Noodleman almost 6 years ago
Our outhouse has two holes!