I'm downloading the beta. Hope i haven't just been tricked.....
thanks for the link about cryptolocker.
yes, i didn't expect it would encrypt the total drive, i spoke loosely. i even thought loosely. frightened by the concept. actually many people, my family for instance, would have only a few megabytes of personal stuff, they could well handle a total disk crash.
however i handle the archives for the family and I have gigabytes, terabytes of stuff and I was contemplating losing that and in the contemplation seeing that it couldn't be encrypted instantly.
and i still think so but now that i stop to think i realise that many people may have much very, very important stuff - book-keeping stuff perhaps, diaries, contacts - that in fact would only be a few megabytes really.
well such people should have a good offline backup regimen.
and so should i. but christ, the time and effort to back up terabytes. i need to invest in tape drives i think.
now i'll go read the white paper and see just how wrong i am about everything...