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 over 5 years ago
That’s it, Lucy, give them the straight poop, straight from the horse’s … um, behind.
Dtroutma over 5 years ago
What goes around, comes around, Lucy can come often.
danketaz Premium Member over 5 years ago
It all works out in the end.
Yontrop over 5 years ago
We don’t need to know how Lucy got her phone back.
Display over 5 years ago
A download or a phone dump?
Aussie Down Under over 5 years ago
Holy crap. You can add " Batman" if you wish the comment to be sarcastic.
sandpiper over 5 years ago
A depiction of every person’s dream response to hackers, scammers, robo callers, and that ilk.
pschearer Premium Member over 5 years ago
Trust her that there are two V’s in ‘privy’?
dadoctah over 5 years ago
Did we miss a chapter?
vaughnrl2003 Premium Member over 5 years ago
Go ahead and take it a bit further. Make it a public privy.
khmo over 5 years ago
That was a pretty quick segue from a potential adventure that appeared to be a non-starter.
silverking1953 over 5 years ago
Anyone for some horse apples down there? Ready or not!
LKrueger41 over 5 years ago
I hope everything comes out all right!
Linguist over 5 years ago
Hackers stink !
DanFlak over 5 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 the wordsmith over 5 years ago
Lucy is so full of it she could run for president.
tripwire45 over 5 years ago
Did she get her phone back, and if so, did she change her password(s)?
hariseldon59 over 5 years ago
Where did Danae get the materials to make the new sign?
Dennis Nichols over 5 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 over 5 years ago
Me thinks we might be about to find out about spyware.
JudyAz over 5 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 over 5 years ago
This thread is so funny. Love the way it ends! Major Kudos!
Teto85 Premium Member over 5 years ago
That’s too good for hackers, but have at it Lucy.
Ka`ōnōhi`ula`okahōkūmiomio`ehiku Premium Member over 5 years ago
Who among us has not the phone from the first hacker scam they received?
Cornelius Noodleman over 5 years ago
Our outhouse has two holes!