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Raising awareness of Ransomware (medium.com)

submitted 10 months ago by TechCodecPawx@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] tun@lemm.ee 0 points 10 months ago (5 children)

I want to know -

Do the kidnappers (I do not know the term) keep the promise?
What happened after the paying the ransom money?
What else are involved in addition to paying or not paying?

[–] Orbituary@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

If they don't uphold their promises, they can't repeat the scam. I've dealt with the hackers and they're better tech support than larger corps in many ways. They want you to be successful, in a weird way.

They're dicks for doing it, but when your admin password is "1991mustang" for 16 years, maybe you deserve a lesson in security.

@nobsi@feddit.de is exactly right in their comments.

[–] Nobsi@feddit.de 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

My admin pasword is Hunter2

[–] tun@lemm.ee 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Mine is Password (with capital p)

[–] Nobsi@feddit.de 0 points 10 months ago

••••••••? Like this?

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