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1 - Infect a few virtual machines 2 - Collect decryption keys 3 - Laugh at the hackers Of course not many people out of the general population know how to ma
by MisterWalter 10y ago
1 - Infect a few virtual machines
2 - Collect decryption keys
3 - Laugh at the hackers
Of course not many people out of the general population know how to make a (primarily) windows VM, but I'm surprised that others aren't mentioning it in this thread.
- detaro 10y agoThey require that the other people you infect pay the ransom, so you'd still have to pay for the VMs. (Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13147428 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13147428 and replies)
- MisterWalter 10y agoWhoops, I missed that bit, that would be why. Thanks.