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> In the past few weeks crypto has shut down energy infrastructure, meat processing, and a major ferry service. You're conflating cryptocurrency with ransomwar
by driverdan 5y ago
> In the past few weeks crypto has shut down energy infrastructure, meat processing, and a major ferry service.
You're conflating cryptocurrency with ransomware attacks.
- dleslie 5y agoI think it's reasonable to link the two, but not conflate them. Crypto has certainly made ransomware a much more viable attack vector. A crypto address is easier to hide behind than a bank account number or mailing address or drop location.
- meiraleal 5y agoso you are a proponent of a cash-less society? If Crypto is responsible for this new attacks, fiat is responsible for all others. Including the most violent ones.
- dleslie 5y agoA cash-less capitalist society looks like Canada and the Nordic countries, where cash use is abnormal and most transactions are with debit and credit; Ie, quite well tracked.
- meiraleal 5y agoThere are no crimes with debit and credit card? They are still cash.
- dleslie 5y agoThey are safer than paper cash or crypto; credit and debit cards have fraud protection, and banks have account security protections.
- meiraleal 5y agoThey have now, they didn't have in the past, and is still an annoyance to the customers often. Also online banking apps, SMS phising, etc.