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Two quick points on this.

1. Some technical people deliberately explain things in an overly technical way as it boosts their ego. "You don't understand this => I am superior."

2. All communication must be for the recipient. You must bend over backwards to help them understand. This is what good communication is. If it's hard work for the recipient it's poor communication.

Yeah, I agree completely. What they had wasn't adequate and the proof is the outcome.

All I'm saying is that from the outside it's easy to take a fairly simple view and propose a technical solution. This looks like a very malicious attack designed to take down the business, the sort of thing that doesn't happen without a reason. If this is the case here then the prolem changes from one that's purely technical to something bigger. Something that can't have a purely technical solution. (Note: I'm not part of distribute it as a may be suspected by the fact that I'm new to HN.)

I don't think it's accurate to say they didn't have a whiff of this architecture. The hackers accessed and deleted their backups. If your employees can do this then you're vulnerable.