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Forgive my ignorance, but is it incredibly hard to determine the actual identities of the people behind this? I don’t know why a government wouldn’t simply assa
by projectileboy 5y ago
Forgive my ignorance, but is it incredibly hard to determine the actual identities of the people behind this? I don’t know why a government wouldn’t simply assassinate culprits who were guilty of crimes at a level that would qualify as an act of war.
- Valgrim 5y agoGiven that this is a ransomware attack, the data is probably encrypted, so if they did find the person behind it, they would probably use "rubber-hose cryptanalysis" to extract encryption keys before... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber-hose_cryptanalysis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber-hose_cryptanalysis
- projectileboy 5y agoI think it’s odd that I’m being downvoted.. I’m not advocating murder, I just wonder if ransomware criminals (assuming they aren’t actually state actors) wouldn’t be at risk.