DAVE ROSS

When a virus gets between me and my cash, that’s where I draw the line

Jun 28, 2017, 8:45 AM

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A woman passes by cash machines that do not work in a city supermarket in Kiev, Ukraine. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

(AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

A sentence in The New York Times about the cyberattack that has impacted thousands of computers worldwide is, at least to Dave Ross, a way to gauge “just how close social order is to collapsing.”

The sentence in the Times reads:

In Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, A.T.M.s stopped working.

“When someone can put a virus out there and automatically, all on its own, infiltrate enough computers to stop A.T.M. machines from working … When a virus gets between me and my cash, that’s where I draw the line,” Dave said.

So far, it’s unclear who is behind the cyberattack, which began on the Ukrainian government and business systems. The extent of the damage and impact is still being gauged.

Like the attacks in May dubbed the WannaCry ransomware attack, this attack took control of computers while demanding a ransom.

The takeaway from this: “Don’t open up an attachment you’re not familiar with,” Dave said.

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When a virus gets between me and my cash, that’s where I draw the line