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t Brazeal: One day I asked my teacher, What use is math to me? She answered: When you're older, some day my boy you'll see... There's a world of computer systems out there Full of valuable data and not secured with care And you can make a fortune in ransomware... With a little bit of math! It's called encryption, Just a little bit of math, Cause a conniption; Lock the data, hide the key; They'll pay up eventually, It's the power of math. Ransomware is big now Because it's organized You can buy it as a service And sell it for a prize There's a whole world of tempting targets to hack - Governments, hospitals, schools to attack And they pay up in Bitcoin, hard to trace back; `Cause it's just math! We call it crypto! Just a...actually a whole bunch of math No need to tiptoe, Hackers whisper, don't be nervous, We take pride in customer service... Well then I told my teacher, I'm feeling terrified; How can we protect ourselves from all this cybercrime? She said, Don't click weird links, or use "password123". Make offline backups, invest in security. And that's when I realized how screwed we might be... Just do the math! So many systems If they all took a bath Wouldn't we miss them? Next time there's no meat or water or gas And we slide a little closer to the day of wrath You can blame IT, or some Russian sociopath But personally, I blame math.