zynkb0a

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by zynkb0a 6y ago
The Troldesh folks (developers of Shade Ransomware) closed up shop and decided to release the keys for 750k victims. This article is a follow up, as Kaspersky has developed a tool to allow ease of decryption. Previous article of the team cl
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Shade Ransomware Decryptor can now decrypt over 750K victims(bleepingcomputer.com)
3 points by zynkb0a 6y ago|1 comments
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by zynkb0a 6y ago
I am also not quite ready to concede that a Chrome/Blink base is the only way a browser can be successful. I'm sure the day is coming, and I'm not sure that we can ever go back when it does.
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by zynkb0a 6y ago
The EFF has a good breakdown of their concerns with Washington Privacy Act: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/03/tech-lobbyists-are-pus... ACLU WA openly opposed the bill: https://www.aclu-wa.org&
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by zynkb0a 6y ago
Here is the team's GitHub: https://github.com/shade-team/keys What a bizarre situation. I'm wondering what the motivation would be to just apologize and dump decryption keys. >Kaspersky Lab's Sergey G
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Shade Ransomware shuts down, releases 750K decryption keys(bleepingcomputer.com)
3 points by zynkb0a 6y ago|2 comments
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Impostor Syndrome(en.wikipedia.org)
5 points by zynkb0a 6y ago|0 comments
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by zynkb0a 6y ago
While I don't work on a red team, it does seem to me that an organization should vet software used by their red teams via the same processes that they use to make risk determinations regarding any other software run on organization sys
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Exploiting the Exploiters(medium.com)
2 points by zynkb0a 6y ago|1 comments
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by zynkb0a 6y ago
What is the significance of SoftBank financing this business?
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by zynkb0a 6y ago
I don't necessarily disagree, but can one do anything that puts them past a point where society should afford them a chance at redemption? Does an individual always deserve to be given a second chance?
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by zynkb0a 6y ago
>people's lives can be ruined, or at least set back years or decades by controversy that stems from private information getting into the wrong hands Private information "getting into the wrong hands" often seems to be an i
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by zynkb0a 6y ago
When I read your comment, I realized I intuitively view open access to surveillance systems like this as more desirable than limited access, and I don't know how to articulate that feeling. I'd consider myself privacy-conscious, h
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by zynkb0a 6y ago
I had a "I feel like this already happened" moment reading the article. This clears it up.