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    Quote Originally Posted by KJ3N View Post
    It's the ARRL. They're too arrogant to learn their lesson. "Regulation By Bandwidth" (2x) anyone?
    When I said that perhaps they learned their lesson, I was referring to the people who use LoTW as their one and only copy of their logs, not the ARRL (although I hope the ARRL learns some lessons from this episode as well).

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    The ARRL said a few days ago that they paid $1 million to the hackers who hit them with a ransomware attack in May.

    https://www.arrl.org/news/arrl-it-se...ort-to-members

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    eh. not so surprising.
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    Well, when we get hit with the next dues increase, now we know what they'll blame it on.

    Even though they SHOULD have insurance to cover that loss. (Betcha they don't)
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    they said that they did, but..
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