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74 million reasons why people write malware
- Tyrannosaurs 15y agoOne day I want an article with a title like this to be a genuine list containing 74 million items that someone has spent their whole life working on.
- StavrosK 15y agoWould a list of "a dollar bill" repeated 74 million times count?
- Tyrannosaurs 15y agoOnly if the individual serial numbers of each one are listed. Actually scrub that, no, I want 74 million different, proper well constructed reasons with citations.
- pavel_lishin 15y ago1. A list of 74 million things I've worked on. 2. tbd
- mgkimsal 15y ago"These criminal enterprises infected the computers of innocent victims with malicious scareware, and then duped them into purchasing fake anti-virus software." What if they just resold non-fake anti-virus software? Infect someone, then sell them a 'legit' tool that removes the infection, and make an affiliate sale?
- MasterScrat 15y agoBecause a computer under your control is worth more money than a satisfied customer?
- mgkimsal 15y agopossibly, but probably also less legal hassle. You are in fact selling a 'legit' answer to a real problem. Yes, it's extortion, but it's taking one of the talking points away, if nothing else.
- Wilya 15y agoAny chances this is the operation behind the Pinboard.in (and friends) servers being seized ? That would at least somehow explain the "don't want to take any chances and take the whole racks" part.