Take a video and post it to your social media account. So… what would someone like me who doesn’t have any social media accounts do?
GoodWill ransomware forces victims to donate to the poor
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Don't be dismissive of script kiddies, they can cause a lot of chaos, and often do it because they feel like no amount of self education or self improvement will improve their chances of stable full time employment. (Hence many of them operating out of the former USSR.)
I’ve met tons of script kiddies over the years and none of them were concerned about employment. They do what they do just to show that they can.
I was thinking the exact same thing, as former (and reformed) lightweight teen hacker. My motivations? Employment? More like for the sheer joy of discovery and fascination with working through ideas. And maybe the slightly sketchier teen hackers: lulz.
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While the action may look creepy and KFCs definitely not the healthiest choice, it is donating. You are donating food to someone hungry.
You’re probably just helping poor people acquire diabetes faster. In the USA poor people are more likely to be fat suggesting food access is not a problem.
Access to quality food is a problem. Unhealthy food is far cheaper than healthy food.
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#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
Don't be dismissive of script kiddies, they can cause a lot of chaos, and often do it because they feel like no amount of self education or self improvement will improve their chances of stable full time employment. (Hence many of them operating out of the former USSR.)
I’ve met tons of script kiddies over the years and none of them were concerned about employment. They do what they do just to show that they can.
>I’ve met tons of script kiddies over the years and none of them were concerned about employment.
Your sample is probably biased in some way. I've met many who feel trapped in wage slavery, here in the USA.
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Or task 3 would also be impossible in a country with universal health care.
That was my first thought - the only logical way I could see for step 3 would be to pay for people's parking.
Universal healthcare doesn’t pay for everything. My friend in Canada has a boy with a rare disease and the out of pocket costs are significant.
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I mean charities could open up crypto accounts; since it's a public ledger, the ransomware operators would be able to see the transaction.
There are charities who accept donations in crypto. We donated future royalties on secondary sales for some of the things we did at SXSW to Action against hunger for one example.
Charities will "accept" nearly anything because turning down donations is bad publicity and people barely need a reason at all to turn on a charity. They don't want it though and will offload it as cheaply as possible. Often this is a minor cost center for some charities lol.
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#97I was expecting them to want you to make a donation and send the receipt, but they want you to actually round up less fortunate kids and take them out for pizza. Bizarre.
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They don't state you shouldn't ask the parents (and also invite them) to complete task 2.
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>I've also not heard of someone dying in the hospital because their loved ones couldn't gather up enough money Am from a country with universal health care. It's not uncommon to die waiting for treatment or there simply not being any way to get the treatment in my country. Raising money to visit the US for treatment is a pretty common thing here as a result.
And in the USA if you don’t have insurance and are dying you’ll be treated. They act like dead poor people are piled up outside of hospitals. They’ll even discount you to 0 if they see you’re really poor.
I wanted to mention something like this, but I felt like my experience is too limited to be sure. My impression is that in the US, the cost of care will lead to people avoiding seeking treatment for things that don't appear urgent. Sometimes, those things are actually urgent and they'll be worse off for waiting. But in cases where there's a clear, urgent need for care, they'll rarely be denied treatment outright. Instead, they'll be burdened with debt afterwards.
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#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
>I've also not heard of someone dying in the hospital because their loved ones couldn't gather up enough money Am from a country with universal health care. It's not uncommon to die waiting for treatment or there simply not being any way to get the treatment in my country. Raising money to visit the US for treatment is a pretty common thing here as a result.
And in the USA if you don’t have insurance and are dying you’ll be treated. They act like dead poor people are piled up outside of hospitals. They’ll even discount you to 0 if they see you’re really poor.
Here's the missing words:
'well funded and well implemented' universal healthcare. It is possible as the stories listed here indicate, and it works when done right.
Blaming poor implementation is throwing out the baby with the bathwater.
What does not work is a system where all things are private and everyone is at the hands of the market. That is something one of the richest countries in the world has shown us over and over and over again.
Re: GoodWill ransomware forces victims to donate to the poor
#100This is a government backed outfit which is demo-ing it's abilities.