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Ransomware: Another great "feature" of difficult to trace digital currencies.
apparently the traceability of digital currencies is proving effective in tracking down criminals that might otherwise operate in just cash.
I’m not sure what point you are trying to make.
For those concerned about privacy violations, this should be rammed home as an argument against centralized collection of medical health data.
I love the increase in these kind of attacks, eventually there will be enough pressure for liability legislation for companies to take security seriously.
The entire technology industry is built on a foundation of limited liability and has a tradition of being ok with defects (eh, it's a small bug). When do we get hardware that is guaranteed to perform and be safe, operating systems, languages and compliers that are safe? It's going to be very difficult to deal with liability in a strict sense. Who's at fault? The OS that had a bug, the library that made the syscall, the code that called the library, the script that ran the program, the network router that allowed the egress, or the user that pushed the button? (edit: fixed typo)
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Your argument reduces to: "progress" is always good, even if it's bad. I think we're perfectly allowed to discuss whether we think a particular kind of change is a good or bad thing.
I'm not making an argument "for progress" at all. I actually 100% agree that we are allowed to, and should, discuss the ramifications of any kind of change. My point is only that the original comment didn't attempt make any argument, other than the reduced one I outlined.
For those concerned about privacy violations, this should be rammed home as an argument against centralized collection of medical health data.
it's actually an argument in favour of well-protected centralized collection. It's more probable that smaller entities arre less protected than bigger ones even if the data they can disclose is more limited.
Size of an organization is not a good proxy for quality of security. Evidence: Colonial Penn, the DC Metro Police Department, Experian, Target, etc...
What kinda scummy scrote you have to be to attack health services during a pandemic. This is a new low.
And with ransomware you don't have to hear the crying of your victims.
Plus if you show mercy on someone people can identify with, like a single mom barely getting by, you can go on draining pensioner's bank accounts like your fucking Robinhood.
Ransomware: Another great "feature" of difficult to trace digital currencies.
Said the medieval King: Ransom: Another great "feature" of difficult-to-trace personal gold coinage What you're actually saying is: Bad thing: Another great "feature" of any kind of positive development in personal sovereignty Or Bad thing: Another great "feature" of any kind of progress --- Progress comes with pitfalls. Sharp knives prepare food and also kill people. You argument effectively reduces to: never innova…
What kinda scummy scrote you have to be to attack health services during a pandemic. This is a new low.
The less data is actually leaked and sold the better, of course, but societies and especially politicians don't seem to learn that easily.
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It’s just business. Don’t hate the player, hate the game.
Its not business, its ransom, and its a whole different level of ransom. Going after the extremely vulnerable, litterally putting at risk lives. Theres no 'okay' ransom, this is just another all time low.