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It's fucking ridiculous to hit the postal service, providing a practically-free function to a lot of people who really need it, and operating at barely even (in

It's fucking ridiculous to hit the postal service, providing a practically-free function to a lot of people who really need it, and operating at barely even (in US and Canada too, so I imagine other countries are similar). The ransomers sound like kids, "speculating that the directors personally held 100m of crypto"? What a disgusting amateur job.

tpmx 4y ago
You seem to think criminals would stop to evaluate the public good of a large UK company with yearly revenues of 12B GBP before blackmailing them for 80M USD. And you claim they are the amateurs? (Of course these criminals are disgusting.)
ta1243 4y ago
Royal Mail is a private company, it was sold by the UK government for about £3b 10 years ago. It's now worth about £2b.
bloomingeek 4y ago
It's also f-ing ridiculous they were so irresponsible as to not protect their computers. F** these ransomers for the terrorist they are!
1vuio0pswjnm7 4y ago
To all those naysayers that claim there is no present use for "cryptocurrency", we present "use of crypto for untraceable ransom payments". One could almost imagine regulating crypto for public policy reasons.
lostlogin 4y ago
Ransomeware has hit the NHS and I have colleagues who had their CT scanners locked. I don’t think the ethics of the operation are high on the list of considerations.
trompetenaccoun 4y ago
Is it really "ridiculous" to hit a crucial service provider in an enemy state, which local law enforcement is guaranteed to not punish them for, if they aren't outright funding the hackers. These attacks happen all over the West, you only know about this one because the negotiation was leaked. Lots of public service providers are targeted, such as universities for example. The actual scandal is that this gets hushed up, if the people knew the scale of these attacks they might think we're in a sort of digital war.

tpmx 4y ago

You seem to think criminals would stop to evaluate the public good of a large UK company with yearly revenues of 12B GBP before blackmailing them for 80M USD. And you claim they are the amateurs? (Of course these criminals are disgusting.)

ta1243 4y ago

Royal Mail is a private company, it was sold by the UK government for about £3b 10 years ago. It's now worth about £2b.

bloomingeek 4y ago

It's also f-ing ridiculous they were so irresponsible as to not protect their computers. F** these ransomers for the terrorist they are!

1vuio0pswjnm7 4y ago

To all those naysayers that claim there is no present use for "cryptocurrency", we present "use of crypto for untraceable ransom payments". One could almost imagine regulating crypto for public policy reasons.

lostlogin 4y ago

Ransomeware has hit the NHS and I have colleagues who had their CT scanners locked. I don’t think the ethics of the operation are high on the list of considerations.

trompetenaccoun 4y ago

Is it really "ridiculous" to hit a crucial service provider in an enemy state, which local law enforcement is guaranteed to not punish them for, if they aren't outright funding the hackers. These attacks happen all over the West, you only know about this one because the negotiation was leaked. Lots of public service providers are targeted, such as universities for example. The actual scandal is that this gets hushed up, if the people knew the scale of these attacks they might think we're in a sort of digital war.