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<blockquote data-quote="bazang" data-source="post: 1115127" data-attributes="member: 114717">The incidence of identity theft and people losing their life savings is rare. However, the cybersecurity news uses such reports as click-bait via fearmongering.And yes, you can reinstall the OS and get your data back - if you are performing backups and/or using automatically synced cloud storage.Prevention is no longer a viable strategy. You have to assume breach because everybody&#039;s data has already been compromised. 90% of the people who are members of this forum - their data has been hacked on 3rd party systems and now resides on the dark web.The days of running Comodo and Emsisoft on one system along with hardening the underlying OS are over. It makes no difference because a person&#039;s data is not at risk on localhost. It is completely vulnerable on 3rd party systems that have no accountability or responsibility in the case that they are hacked.So all the paranoid-level effort and time put into protecting localhost is wasted. But it is everybody&#039;s right to waste their time. It is their life that they are wasting.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="bazang, post: 1115127, member: 114717"] The incidence of identity theft and people losing their life savings is rare. However, the cybersecurity news uses such reports as click-bait via fearmongering. And yes, you can reinstall the OS and get your data back - if you are performing backups and/or using automatically synced cloud storage. Prevention is no longer a viable strategy. You have to assume breach because everybody's data has already been compromised. 90% of the people who are members of this forum - their data has been hacked on 3rd party systems and now resides on the dark web. The days of running Comodo and Emsisoft on one system along with hardening the underlying OS are over. It makes no difference because a person's data is not at risk on localhost. It is completely vulnerable on 3rd party systems that have no accountability or responsibility in the case that they are hacked. So all the paranoid-level effort and time put into protecting localhost is wasted. But it is everybody's right to waste their time. It is their life that they are wasting. [/QUOTE]

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