there. it s absolutely unbelievable. when you set foot in really any city in america, you could throw a rock and probably hit something that has been touched in some way by ransomware. i m standing in from of ucsf, the premier medical research hospital of this region. exactly a year ago today it announced it had to pay a little more than a million dollars to free up academic research held on servers that had been captured by ransomware actors. here s the thing, if i take a bus here, you re going to see one go by me in a moment, that system, the san francisco muni system was hit in 2016 and they had to make a free ride for everybody for a full day. back then it was quaint they paid only $73,000 to release that ransomware attack. if i walk two blocks that way, i ll hit a bar that might serve me something from molson coors hit this year, across the park,