What is next? Be healthy ransomware? Forcing people to exercise on camera, for keys?
My new startup: on demand deepfake exercise footage of yourself.
Needs more blockchain.
GoodWill ransomware forces victims to donate to the poor
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#102If only there was universal healthcare, than we wouldn't need private entities coercing individuals to forfeit parts of their paychecks to pay for strangers lifestyles, the government would have rendered that service obsolete! Another win for the free market?
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#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nobody gets arrested for buying pizza for a bunch of kids.
Someone apparently got arrested for offering candy to kids though, so I wouldn't count on it. https://www.shawlocal.com/2020/10/26/man-charged-with-disord...
I mean, rolling down the window offering candy to strangers is the literal textbook example of a 70s predator, so it’s extremely suspicious. Hand out candy while walking and it won’t be that bad.
Re: GoodWill ransomware forces victims to donate to the poor
#104If only there was universal healthcare, than we wouldn't need private entities coercing individuals to forfeit parts of their paychecks to pay for strangers lifestyles, the government would have rendered that service obsolete! Another win for the free market?
Taxation is coercion. Higher taxation is higher coercion.
With that being said, the US already spends more on public healthcare than Canada does, so the problem is a lot more complex than where should the money come from.
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#105If only there was universal healthcare, than we wouldn't need private entities coercing individuals to forfeit parts of their paychecks to pay for strangers lifestyles, the government would have rendered that service obsolete! Another win for the free market?
Taxation is coercion. Higher taxation is higher coercion. With that being said, the US already spends more on public healthcare than Canada does, so the problem is a lot more complex than where should the money come from.
Patching bullet holes is expensive.
Re: GoodWill ransomware forces victims to donate to the poor
#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
As an American, that's just disgusting. The government shouldn't decide if your parents die. The free market should decide. If you created enough shareholder value then you'll have enough to pay for their treatment like God intended.
I'm hoping this is sarcasm.
It is indeed
Re: GoodWill ransomware forces victims to donate to the poor
#107If only there was universal healthcare, than we wouldn't need private entities coercing individuals to forfeit parts of their paychecks to pay for strangers lifestyles, the government would have rendered that service obsolete! Another win for the free market?
Taxation is coercion. Higher taxation is higher coercion. With that being said, the US already spends more on public healthcare than Canada does, so the problem is a lot more complex than where should the money come from.
You can just as well say that property is coercion. Like I get that you won't agree, but you are asserting a value system when you do that.
Re: GoodWill ransomware forces victims to donate to the poor
#108I assumed the "goodwill" would be a donation to an association that would be a front for the hackers to get the money somehow, but it seems that it's really acts of goodwill with no real money flowing, so maybe the hackers actually believe they're doing good ?
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#109Sickos: Yes, ha ha ha, YES!
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#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wouldn't any legitimate charity return money that was donated through coercion? If someone stole something and gave it to me, and the rightful owner asked for it back, I would give it back. I guess it would just look bad asking for them to return it but most people would understand.
The malware group is not asking for donations to organizations, but to individuals at the hospital. They are requiring that someone at the infected business records videos of themselves going to a hospital or health clinic, looking for people who seem like they need financial help and offering to help them pay for their medical care. 1) Good luck suing poor individuals to get your money back 2) It's hard to fathom wh…
> It's hard to fathom what kind of asshole you'd have to be
I don't think you picked up on who this asshole is in this situation