Earlier quoted context omitted.
My point is that it's perfectly valid to argue that ownership itself is coercive.
I don't think you understand what coercive means
If multiple people want to own the same thing, how do they "decide" who gets it?
GoodWill ransomware forces victims to donate to the poor
181–190 of 366 posts
Re: GoodWill ransomware forces victims to donate to the poor
#182Earlier 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.)
They certainly can cause a lot of chaos. In fact, I'd say that most malicious chaos normal internet users may be subjected to is done by these scriptkiddies. Theres a difference, though, between an extensive ransomeware attack and an experiment by a bunch of amateurs. The chance of key recovery is much greater if there are dedicated criminals behind the attack, but amateurs also don't get the widespread reach that th…
What if this ransomware infects a hospital ? Then it can kill people.
Re: GoodWill ransomware forces victims to donate to the poor
#183Very Black Mirror
Re: GoodWill ransomware forces victims to donate to the poor
#184Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's the specifics that give it away. "Take 5 poor children from your neighborhood to Pizza Hut." Screaming kids at Pizza Hut aside, we can't make other people have empathy. They have to find it and explore it themselves, perhaps by seeing others do the same. It's especially ironic that someone with lowered empathy would be demanding someone else show fake empathy publicly before giving them back control of their own…
Can't make people have empathy, but you can make them carry out empathetic acts over and over again through blackmail with this ransomware.
Is it empathetic if you don't mean it?
Re: GoodWill ransomware forces victims to donate to the poor
#185This is probably obvious to anyone but there isn't anything "good" about this, I expected this to be something along the lines of a crypto donation to GiveDirectly but this is just a sick wannabe Blackmirror power play.
A "sick wannabe Blackmirror power play" is a little much. This is probably the cheapest ransomware unlock that's ever been put out there (unless you're based in the US, then good fucking luck on the medical care clause). If you're a company whose security policies are too terrible to survive a ransomware attack, then you'd rather be hit with this one than any of the others.
Right. Picking up random children from the street and taking them to a restaurant comes at almost no cost. In fact if anyone sees this and calls the authorities they are likely to give you free lodging and food at a state owned facility top of it :)
Re: GoodWill ransomware forces victims to donate to the poor
#186I can see a younger version of myself making something like this and intentionally letting it slip to the media for attention. I th8nk this line is telling: "Since there are no known victims/ targets for the ransomware group, their Tactics, Techniques and Procedures remain unknown." I don't think there's a risk if any great outbreak here. A bunch of scriptkiddies took some open source project and modified it with som…
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 suspect that much of these "former USSR script kiddies" are actually the kleptocratic Russian regime.
Re: GoodWill ransomware forces victims to donate to the poor
#187Earlier quoted context omitted.
In Germany my aunt gets expensive cancer treatment without extra pay. Any specific you think about?
Meanwhile people have to pay thousands of Euros to maintain their teeth if they need root canals or prosthetic dentures and such. Maybe you're just not old enough to know? Btw the "free" tier system is a joke in Germany. Waiting months for an appointment is the norm for anything more serious than a cough, unless you're privately insured which all the rich people and interestingly civil servants are. Tells you a lot w…
I have to visit a few low key specialists: Neuro etc. And while waiting is true sometimes calling around helps.
The teeth problem I'm aware of and find it quite unfair indeed.
Nonetheless cancer doesn't make you poor in comparison to the USA.
Still something which has to be fixed in Germany.
But you still have the option to go private if you want.
Re: GoodWill ransomware forces victims to donate to the poor
#188Earlier quoted context omitted.
They certainly can cause a lot of chaos. In fact, I'd say that most malicious chaos normal internet users may be subjected to is done by these scriptkiddies. Theres a difference, though, between an extensive ransomeware attack and an experiment by a bunch of amateurs. The chance of key recovery is much greater if there are dedicated criminals behind the attack, but amateurs also don't get the widespread reach that th…
What if this ransomware infects a hospital ? Then it can kill people.
What if a group of serious hackers infects a hospital... that place should probably be pen tested substantially
Re: GoodWill ransomware forces victims to donate to the poor
#189Earlier quoted context omitted.
You still have to build it out of something. An economy of pure traded labor, like trading foot massages or whatever, wouldn't actually have property.
There are natural resources that nobody created. Using them to create something is not coercion and results in property that can be traded for other property or services. Property can be coercion (e.g. untouched land claimed by or with the support of the state), but it doesn't have to be.
I want to build a table, so I chomp a tree. You want to build a chair, and you chomp another tree. I want to build another table, so I must walk a longer distance to find a tree. If everyone cut trees, it will get harder to find one.
Another person want to build a music instrument. He need some special kind of tree, with some specific size and age, so he want all of us to not cut that tree. Does he make a fence to protect the tree while it's growing? Does he hire a bodyguard for the tree?
Hunter-gathering is coercion-free unless someone other group want hunter-gathering in the same place. An once farmer arrive, it gets more complicated.
Re: GoodWill ransomware forces victims to donate to the poor
#190The ends justify the means - does this ever really work out?