Time to examine the anatomy of the British Library ransomware nightmare
Opinion Quiz time: name one thing you know about the Library of Alexandria. Points deducted for "it’s a library. In Alexandria." Looking things up is cheating and you know it.
Hands up if you said it was burned to the ground by barbarians. That's almost entirely wrong – we'll get to that in a bit – and that's not important. What matters is we think such a thing is so tragic, so emblematic of cultural collapse, that we've told ourselves that story for nearly two thousand years.
The Rhysida ransom...
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