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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
This thing was written by someone who doesn't live in a developed country... There's no way to do those actions in a developed country. Does this person think that just random children are available to be given food to?
At my youngest child's elementary school, I could pick random kids to give food to and have an 80% chance of them being disadvantaged and/or food insecure. The only tricky part would be contacting their parents to get permission and/or get the parents to come along, and that would be manageable. Arguably I don't live in a developed country, but it's a US state...
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Black Mirror meets Mr. Robot. An interesting reality nevertheless.
or script kiddie meets open-source? or the dark side of open-source perhaps? Mr.Robot is incredible show, Sam Esmail, Rami Malek and Christian Slater potentially created the top series of the decade, but this is not the reality.
About whoever is behind this ransomware, of course this is nothing "fsociety-level" though the general intentions (hacking powerful ones and changing of powers) gave me a similar vibe.
This thing was written by someone who doesn't live in a developed country... There's no way to do those actions in a developed country. Does this person think that just random children are available to be given food to?
Welcome to HN, where suburban America is the only developed country.
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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.
This thing was written by someone who doesn't live in a developed country... There's no way to do those actions in a developed country. Does this person think that just random children are available to be given food to?
exactly. People who need money at the hospital to get treated? Oviously targeted at Americans and other 3rd world countries
Right now, most people in the US work for free 3-4 months out of the year via taxes. This is theft as well, but interestingly enough it has a smaller overhead then taxes, which nearly all of the funds are transferred to the 1%.
"Taxation is theft" is the rallying cry of the overprivileged who want to feel like victims for once.
A primary human right is you own the fruits of your labor. Period.
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What if a group of serious hackers infects a hospital... that place should probably be pen tested substantially
They are pen tested. Now same question, what happens when the ransomware infects a hospital?
Responsibility always lies on those who created the malware.
But also on hospital IT if they didn't take precautions.