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you gotta be a special kind of piece of crap to do that now
by luckydata 7y ago
you gotta be a special kind of piece of crap to do that now
- theschmed 7y agoDisregard for human life seems to be a pattern of online lulz. I mean, this is on a different scale from "SWATTING" but the same sociopathy, no?
- revel 7y agothis is much more likely to be a malicious state actor than uncoordinated attacks by random internet idiots
- jmole 7y agoransomware is not a typical attack from a state actor
- TomMarius 7y agoHow do you know it's not ths Chinese or North Koreans looking for bitcoins? It is documented they do transact in bitcoin on the hacking market a lot.
- sterlind 7y agoNotPetya had ties to Russian intelligence, and WannaCry had ties to North Korea. Not saying this is a state actor, just pointing out ransomware is just another tool for them.
- drusklo 7y agoWhy not both?, using a tactic common among criminals to destabilize the healthcare system and hence the economy
- pavelrub 7y agoHow is this "much more likely to be a malicious state actor"? There is literally nothing about this attack that indicates a state actor.
- IAmEveryone 7y agoIt’s likely to be a “state actor” for the same reason people like to use the term “state actor”: it’s so much more exciting than the alternative.
- Symmetry 7y agoBeing angry at a particular person and wanting to get them killed is really bad but it's something a lot of people are capable of. Getting a bunch of random people killed to make a quick buck is different.
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- mcs_ 7y agoIn some cases, people with no hope is used to execute wrong commands. As humanity, we have seen in the past military actions against people without weapons (killing them at times). I do not think the issue is them trying to do bad things, and maybe the point is we are living in a world where there are many more borderlines that are easily recruitable for some dollars.
- celticninja 7y agodue to the significant danger posed to the lives of so many I hope they are caught and severely punished. this is not the type of person that you can rehabilitate.
- IAmEveryone 7y ago“Rehabilitation” isn’t the opposite of “punishment”. In fact punishment is part of the process of rehabilitation. If, as you say, rehabilitation is impossible, punishment would be illegitimate. Because we don’t harm people just to satisfy our thirst for revenge.
- jfkebwjsbx 7y agoYou have it backwards. The punishment is must be there as a deterrent, regardless of the possibility of rehabilitation. Otherwise nobody would care whatever a judge decides.
- kbenson 7y agoRehabilitation does not necessarily require punishment, and there are reasons for punishment that are not based on rehabilitation. It is possible for someone to be rehabilitated on their own as they change, or through someone taking action that is not punishment (explaining the impact of the actions which the person may not have been thinking of, etc). It's possible to punish someone with no thought as to rehabilitation. Capital punishment is this. The purpose is not to benefit the person in any way, but to benefit society by providing a negative example to others so they don't attempt the same actions (it doesn't matter if you believe it works, this is the purpose it's done).
- celticninja 7y agoI would suggest prison as a way of preventing them from doing it again. not to harm them but to prevent them from causing harm.
- threatofrain 7y agoIs this an individual? Or a team working for an institution?
- pjc50 7y agoI have a horrible suspicion that the attacks are continuous and ongoing, but the high stress levels of the present situation make it easier for people to click on the wrong email or link on their XP hospital PCs.
- agumonkey 7y agothere will be a special lesson after this, because we're in a wide global stress and indeed, when something is overloaded, other issues are felt deeper. It's also a time when people can act foolish and be tempted to be antisocial, so more stupid hacks, more angry people, or even more dormant ennemies trying to benefit.
- pjc50 7y agoAccident analysts call this "cascade failure". Something goes wrong, and the safety system intended to deal with it is also broken.
- ancarda 7y agoThe current top comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22665562 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22665562) has a translation that mentions the email containing the virus was about COVID-19 Do not defend the pieces of shit that launch attacks during a pandemic.
- threatofrain 7y agoI doubt this simply a shitty person as opposed to a military action by funded institutions.
- netsharc 7y agoWhat's with this conspiracy theory? The average person can pull this shit off, why do you have to "believe" that it's something "funded institutions" (do you not even dare write "state sponsored"?)? What world view do you have that you'd rather have it be a state rather than shitty people? So you can think "$ENEMY_STATE is so fucking evil"? Maybe it's 1 person, maybe it's organized criminals, do they count as "funded institutions"? Maybe it's a state... but well if you have beliefs, you gotta have the evidence!