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I kinda disagree with this.
Not disagree as in "He's wrong, this is complete bollocks" but as in "He's right about some things, wrong bout others, missing yet others and the things are much more nuanced and discretion must be applied".
I was asked to elaborate, so here it is.
The whole article is based on the premise "ransomware contains data that's private for you, once you upload it, everyone can get it from VirusTotal". This is wrong and incomplete in several ways.
To begin with, by far not all ransomware is hand-crafted for the victim and even when it is, by far not all of it contains personal information.
Furthermore, the author is confusing the ransomware executable (which is what you normally upload to VirusTotal, so that the scanners there can tell you what it is) with the ransom note. The note contains victim-specific data much more often than the executable.
Next, VirusTotal, while hugely popular, is not the only such service. I very much like id-ransomware for ransomware identification - and you never upload the executable there anyway; only encrypted files (and ransom note, if available; often it's not).
Not disagree as in "He's wrong, this is complete bollocks" but as in "He's right about some things, wrong bout others, missing yet others and the things are much more nuanced and discretion must be applied".
Never upload #ransomware samples to the Internet. Let me explain what information such a sample contains, why you shouldn't upload them, and what happens if you upload them after all. #SysAdmin #DFIR #malwarehttps://t.co/M4S3ET5Eqc
— Thomas Barabosch (@tbarabosch) December 28, 2020
I was asked to elaborate, so here it is.
The whole article is based on the premise "ransomware contains data that's private for you, once you upload it, everyone can get it from VirusTotal". This is wrong and incomplete in several ways.
To begin with, by far not all ransomware is hand-crafted for the victim and even when it is, by far not all of it contains personal information.
Furthermore, the author is confusing the ransomware executable (which is what you normally upload to VirusTotal, so that the scanners there can tell you what it is) with the ransom note. The note contains victim-specific data much more often than the executable.
Next, VirusTotal, while hugely popular, is not the only such service. I very much like id-ransomware for ransomware identification - and you never upload the executable there anyway; only encrypted files (and ransom note, if available; often it's not).
the absence of private demand makes government expenditure necessary. It repays itself by creating a stronger economy than would have otherwise been the case. For me that is the macro - non-household budget - reasoning. (1/13ish)
Making G contingent on a ultra low government rate of interest (ULGROI) seems household budget thinking: lower expenditure on interest payments is being portrayed as permitting the higher expenditure on G. (2/13)
All fine that this is permitting those who think in a household budget way (OBR, IFS etc) to support spending (or rather not prescribe austerity) but it is not the macro of the situation. (3/13)
As an aside I'd rather call out the household budget mob for prescribing austerity last time, not least in the week that the OECD publicly acknowledged austerity was overdone. Parotting their present argument seems to let them off the hook. (4/13)
As you know the low rate of interest - in advanced economies on government debt - is not a matter of chance but a consequence of a decade of reliance on QE and a wider global retreat from risk. (5/13)
I\u2019m not clear what you are arguing about the rate of interest\u2014you only mention it in passing here?
— Jo Michell (@JoMicheII) December 3, 2020
Making G contingent on a ultra low government rate of interest (ULGROI) seems household budget thinking: lower expenditure on interest payments is being portrayed as permitting the higher expenditure on G. (2/13)
All fine that this is permitting those who think in a household budget way (OBR, IFS etc) to support spending (or rather not prescribe austerity) but it is not the macro of the situation. (3/13)
As an aside I'd rather call out the household budget mob for prescribing austerity last time, not least in the week that the OECD publicly acknowledged austerity was overdone. Parotting their present argument seems to let them off the hook. (4/13)
As you know the low rate of interest - in advanced economies on government debt - is not a matter of chance but a consequence of a decade of reliance on QE and a wider global retreat from risk. (5/13)
Thread.
The UK's street address data is one of our most important, and problematic, public datasets.
Now, an opportunity has arisen to do something about it. Read on.
(1/10)
Here's why it matters.
Let’s say you’re creating a service that uses addresses.
Perhaps you’re building the next Deliveroo. Or organising emergency food parcels.
You need a way for users to enter addresses; to locate them; and probably to match them with other data.
(2/10)
It's as fundamental to public and private sector services as the periodic table is central to science.
For these reasons, other countries have official, freely available address and location data.
But the UK doesn’t.
(3/10)
This causes us innumerable problems.
Whether you’re building a business, and spending endless time wrangling with what should be simple data issues...
https://t.co/swmaVj4qnS
(4/10)
...or you’re a civil servant trying to deliver emergency support services at the height of a
The UK's street address data is one of our most important, and problematic, public datasets.
Now, an opportunity has arisen to do something about it. Read on.
(1/10)
Here's why it matters.
Let’s say you’re creating a service that uses addresses.
Perhaps you’re building the next Deliveroo. Or organising emergency food parcels.
You need a way for users to enter addresses; to locate them; and probably to match them with other data.
(2/10)
It's as fundamental to public and private sector services as the periodic table is central to science.
For these reasons, other countries have official, freely available address and location data.
But the UK doesn’t.
(3/10)
This causes us innumerable problems.
Whether you’re building a business, and spending endless time wrangling with what should be simple data issues...
https://t.co/swmaVj4qnS
(4/10)
...or you’re a civil servant trying to deliver emergency support services at the height of a
Another day unpicking the consequences of different datasets using multiple, different methodologies for matching an address to the local authority. People are falling between these gaps.
— Paul Downey (@psd) April 2, 2020
