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With what funding? They might as well pay the ransom with the imaginary money...
Existing salaried IT staff. Format all hard drives, reinstall software. Use data from most recent backup to restore library card list, wave all fines, start fresh.
How big do you think their IT staff is? Also, there may not be any fines, because many libraries don't charge them anymore and have not in quite some time.
I think you need to be more familiar with libraries and library systems and how they work.
Tee hee
While your point is correct — you assume that 1, they have good backups. 2 that they can “format “… etc
Yes I frequently lose sleep over our backups where I work, and I know they are good… we do test them
On top of that, we're probably talking about thousands of computers. Every library in the system, and it's a city so it is a big system, is full of computers for both patrons and staff. Some of them will be specialized and I'm not even sure how they would be affected by this. The library where my wife works has things like 3D printers. Were they affected too? I have no idea, but they might be. And that's a whole other headache.
This is a huge amount of work for IT which would involve a lot of overtime and I doubt the library system can afford it because they are always underfunded, even in a "liberal" city like Seattle.
There are likely less than 10 people in the entire system who run these things. That’s fine for doing mass deployments but not adequate to build a system from scratch.
Pretty sure Seattle doesn't do fines anymore.