The Toronto Public Library says its systems, which were the target of a cyberattack in late October, will remain down until 2024.

According to my librarian wife, this is one of the largest library systems in the country, if not the world.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
      26·
      10 months ago

      And with limited budgets. Libraries have trouble making ends meet. They’re non-profits. They couldn’t afford the pay the ransome.

    • Teon@kbin.social
      21·
      10 months ago

      Free information, education and entertainment without restrictions is a danger to fascism.
      Destroying that empowers psychopaths to be able to brainwash it’s citizens.

      This is why we need public libraries all over the world. And a free open, uncensored internet to accompany it.
      Each individual should make decisions about what is appropriate for themselves, not a government, a religion or terrorists.

    • Fades@lemmy.world
      141·
      10 months ago

      Don’t these right wing crazies have vendettas against the public library systems? Also there are lots of foreign hacker/troll farms that would love to do things like this

      Obviously there is no proof of this out there, but they are definitely possibilities

  • Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.eeEnglish
    5·
    10 months ago

    The people who would attack a library system deserve to be tarred and feathered before being sent to live inside an active volcano.