By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026Within a few months, the stupidest people on the internet were shutting down some of the most important systems in the world, demanding cash to return them: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal...en.wikipedia.orgEternalBlue - Wikipedia 11289
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026They shut down whole cities: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Ba... They took over hospitals: www.bbc.com/news/technol... They seized oil pipelines: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonia...en.wikipedia.org2019 Baltimore ransomware attack - Wikipedia 11148
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026They stole the British Library, whose postmortem on the attack is one of the clearest, most informative cybersecurity documents ever written: cdn.sanity.io/files/v5dwki...cdn.sanity.io 217918
