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Is this any different from the mafia in many places?
Once you work in a large corp and see parallels with government, you start to realize it's just organizational theory all the way down, except some use physical violence, others don't.
The article briefly touches on this, but my belief is the one thing that may eventually "take down" cryptocurrency is ransomware. That is, ransomware as it exists today is only possible because secure, anonymous, non-reversible methods of payment exist in the form of cryptocurrency. Things like bearer bonds were outlawed decades ago because of a similar desire to make large anonymous, easily transportable payments im…
The article briefly touches on this, but my belief is the one thing that may eventually "take down" cryptocurrency is ransomware. That is, ransomware as it exists today is only possible because secure, anonymous, non-reversible methods of payment exist in the form of cryptocurrency. Things like bearer bonds were outlawed decades ago because of a similar desire to make large anonymous, easily transportable payments im…
> Gangs also have begun encrypting backup systems, including cloud storage services such as Office 365 and Drop-box. Although 56% of the firms surveyed by Sophos regained control of their data through backups, that window appears to be closing. "[Cybergangs] have realized that the ransom demand becomes powerless if you have a full backup set in place and you can revert to it," This is why our backups at work write to…
I want this on a simpler scale: an external drive that has a physical switch. In normal operation the switch is in "append only" mode and the drive ensures that nothing can be erased. Only when the switch is temporarily hit to a "unsafe" mode would it allow deleting to make more space. I don't know how easy or difficult this would be (I assume external drives don't typically know about filesystem-level information li…
How is it that Operating Systems don't default to a configuration that can't ever be changed by a rogue application process? Why can't the OS be write protected? Why can't the configuration also be write protected?
> Some, including the U.S. Treasury, have promoted the idea of making it illegal to pay a ransom, though the idea has not gained widespread support. That's probably the only solution, besides the obvious ones like actually protecting the systems.
But I would hope that financial pressure - like insurance companies not insuring unprotected systems - would have the same result without the need for regulation.
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I'm wondering if they also have Scrum Masters and other consultants.
Get those crime tasks into Jira!
Edit: link: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-27/fifty-wom...
> These "customers," who have zero coding skills or software expertise, take advantage of a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) model to gain sophisticated capabilities > Incredibly, many of these operations look and function like authentic businesses. "They rent office space, they have development teams, data architecture teams, help desks, phone support, and people that negotiate ransoms with targets" What a crazy world…
The article briefly touches on this, but my belief is the one thing that may eventually "take down" cryptocurrency is ransomware. That is, ransomware as it exists today is only possible because secure, anonymous, non-reversible methods of payment exist in the form of cryptocurrency. Things like bearer bonds were outlawed decades ago because of a similar desire to make large anonymous, easily transportable payments im…
Crypto, or at least bitcoin, is not anonymous. On the contrary the payment trail is there for the whole world to see. Governments could blacklist those coins such that no exchange or legitimate vendor would ever take them. They choose not for whatever reason but not because the technology offers anonymity.
Also a hacker could just buy something with the coins between the time the victim sends the money and the time the government is notified.