This: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/12/opinion_column_ransomware/

Shabby IT infrastructure built with criminally low budgets.

What did we expect?

Of course there will be ruthless exploitation of weakness.

Clearly, minimal IT budgets -- just enought to "keep the lights on" -- will provide avenues for exploitation.

Generally, I try to frown on Domain-Specific Languages. Often, a tidy set of related functions, or a group of class definitions with a few decorators can create something that's every bit as expressive as a DSL in native Python syntax.

There are a few cases where a DSL can be …