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*Three weeks ago, waist-high cardboard boxes filled to the brim with books cluttered every aisle of this industrial Georgetown warehouse. Stacked in rows, the still-to-be-processed books packed 90 boxes at its peak.

Now, two months after a ransomware attack shut down many of Seattle Public Library’s services, library workers are celebrating: They’ve finally finished sorting and processing a backlog of thousands of borrowed books. *

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The shitwad 'hackers' that attack a public library system should be flayed publicly.

They should let kids line up around the block just to kick them in the balls beforehand.