The DMZ

12:07 AM

Dr. who fanaticism is required for entry to this room? Awesome. I love that show so much

The roads are all icy, and people insist on driving like psychotic maniacs. An 18 wheeler ran someone clean off the damn road nearby

Tons of cars upside down in the ditch, on their sides, etc. Freaky

TildalWave

1:32 AM

@MarkHulkalo mandatory winter equipment here (winter profile tires, snow tire chains,....) starting from 15th Nov. and that's exactly the reason why we have that

I drove once through Romania on that single highway they have during a snow storm and saw that tho ... was kinda surreal, we went past more cars in the ditch than those still struggling even tho we were like at least 5x faster with 4WD and full winter equipment than most of them

was that last time that the Black sea froze, about 5 years ago I think

Mark Hulkalo

2:23 AM

Yeah mandatory winter equipment is needed here

I don't know if we have that, but I just saw another group of cars in the ditch

Even worse, an 18 wheeler flipped the fuck over. One barrelled across the other end of the highway and nearly hit people on the other end

But that one didn't flip. The one that flipped... I don't know if the dude made it :( cop seemed to be trying to figure out if he was OK or not

I called 911 for another guy, and it turned out they already rescued him earlier, just the car was stuck there. I feel like a giant ass, but I couldn't tell from that angle. I turned around to check, and saw the police line. So I turned around again, and after I got back on my side, the rescue vehicle was there.... And they were flipped over. Another vehicle was helping them out.

David Freitag

3:22 AM

@Simon Or someone with anxiety problems.

@AviD lol, much of this is true

Saladin

6:34 AM

Hello

Should i pay hacker 500 $ to decrypt system infected with ransomware or I try recovering it through software such as recuva?

Journeyman Geek

6:48 AM

._.

You should recover from the periodic backups you ought to have made

There's also tools floating around that decrypt common ransomware.

TildalWave

yup here's one noransom.kaspersky.com

otherwise, nuke from orbit, restore from last known good backup

Journeyman Geek

(and seriously, in this day and age there is no excuse for not having backups)

And try to avoid paying ransomware writers. Seriously.

TildalWave

it also doesn't guarantee anything

Journeyman Geek

Yup

Also, recurva ... well...

Its good for oopsies.

Totally not what a professional would use.

TildalWave

What can recuva even do for ransomware? You'd first have to make sure you're free of it, then you restore some of the deleted files that weren't overwritten and completely lost? Or can it do something better?

Journeyman Geek

7:00 AM

@TildalWave pretty much. Assuming it dosen't get encrypted again.

recurva would help if the original files were still not overwritten and were floating around somewhere.

TildalWave

I thought that's more of a "oh noes I haz pwnd my pron pls help" type of a tool

ah well it is, I thought right

Journeyman Geek

Its more I accidentally my prons.

As I said, good for oopsies

TildalWave

so restoring deleted porn as a poor man's vault and restoring intentionally deleted porn as a poor investigator's forensics tool