Good thing when my main rig goes down I have a, checks notes, 16 RTX 4090 BACKUP MACHINE.
this post was submitted on 17 Mar 2025
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In fairness if you really needed to you could rent this kind of compute via a service like vast.ai, it'd probably still be cheaper than paying a ransom.
Just build a new one, at the cost of....
Nevermind, pay the ransom.
You don't need a whole new system just another clean hard drive to boot from and use the 16x RTX 4090 to calculate the code. EZPZ.
The freshest Akira variant uses old-timey encryption method vulnerable to brute-force methods
It breaks old-timey encryption.
It's nice to know that 4090s won't break new timey encryption in that amount of time.
Does this mean that 1 RTX4090 can do it in a week?:)
Not sure if they have this specific GPU or not, but I know AWS has on-demand instances with GPUs (and other cloud providers like Google likely do as well). It’s probably just a matter of time before somebody deploys self-service images so a business that got hit by this ransomware could quickly recover on their own.
In other news ZFS and proper back ups do this in about 30 seconds.
I know you meant backups can protect against ransomware, but it would be pretty funny if ZFS included a ransomware password cracker
Depending on the depth of the ransomware a simple "zfs rollback" will fix all your problems.
30? What? Holy moly!
So stick to wibbly wobbly, timey wimey encryption? Got it.