[speakeron]

Surely more sensible advice would have been: make sure you have offline backups; but if you don't, pay the ransom.

[vezzy-fnord]

   Still, the Boston head of cyber said that organizations
   that have procedures in place for regularly backing up 
   their data can avoid paying a ransom at all, by simply 
   restoring the infected system to a state prior to the 
   infection.