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There is likely an element of sociopathy involved as it requires a particular lack of empathy towards secondary victims. But the same can be said for most caree
by gertop 2y ago
There is likely an element of sociopathy involved as it requires a particular lack of empathy towards secondary victims. But the same can be said for most career criminals, and most crimes do indeed stop when you remove the profit motivation.
Your own conjecture that ransomware authors are somehow a special breed is the one that needs backing.
- kazinator 2y ago> special breed Vandals are real.
- badgersnake 2y agoSure, that’s how viruses used to work. They would just delete / corrupt your data. It was a small-time operation, some pissed off mid with an axe to grind. Now it’s either a nation-state with a political agenda or organised criminals doing it for the money.