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> The free decryption service was made possible because Fox-IT was somehow able to recover the private keys... Part of me is so hoping that they extracted those keys from the crooks using rubber-hose cryptanalysis. There are many types of Internet scams, some more evil than others, but this is one of the nastiest I ever heard of.
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> I assume they feel it is their honor and duty to do so Free advertising. Why should a commercial entity have a donate button? Why would I donate to a business?
You'd donate to a business for the same reason you'd donate to an individual: to give resources to a cause that you support and to incentivize a direction of work. You might be surprised to learn that the business world already has tons of donation buttons and trust networks. For accounting reasons they're often called contracts.
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> I assume they feel it is their honor and duty to do so Free advertising. Why should a commercial entity have a donate button? Why would I donate to a business?
You'd donate to a business for the same reason you'd donate to an individual: to give resources to a cause that you support and to incentivize a direction of work. You might be surprised to learn that the business world already has tons of donation buttons and trust networks. For accounting reasons they're often called contracts.
Has anyone here looked at the software? It requires you to manually run a command from the command prompt for every file. Decryptolocker.exe --key " " If I have thousands of files, that will take forever, anyway to batch decrypt?