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Incredibly sad news. And this made me even sadder: "Extortionists demanded around 450,000 euros (in bitcoins) in exchange for not publishing the clinical and m

Incredibly sad news. And this made me even sadder: "Extortionists demanded around 450,000 euros (in bitcoins) in exchange for not publishing the clinical and mental health data of thousands of people. The criminals started to publish the data of 100 people every day in the encrypted web Tor two days ago." As someone that strongly believes in privacy and freedom I find so depressing that some technologies seem to be exclusively used to commit crimes.

leppr 6y ago
Rather: "some technologies seem to exclusively make the news when used to commit crimes." Headlines are not statistics.
- linspace 6y ago
  You have a point but I don't see other headlines and this considering Hacker News is biased in favor of Tor and Bitcoin
  - leppr 6y ago
    Maybe biased in favour of Tor but Bitcoin definitely not.