Therapy patients blackmailed for cash after clinic data breach

Re:Therapy patients blackmailed for cash after clinic data b... by unishark on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @10:20AM (#24918990)

You're complaining about criminals having anonymity in a discussion about privacy. The technology enabling bitcoin is cryptography itself. There's no putting it back in the bottle, and we'd still want it anyway.

We simply need data to be as well protected as the criminals can protect their financial transactions.

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Re:Therapy patients blackmailed for cash after clinic data b... by mehrdadn on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @10:23AM (#24919023)

> There's no putting it back in the bottle

Sure there is, make Bitcoin illegal. (Edit: Okay, I obviously meant cryptocurrencies, not just Bitcoin...)

> and we'd still want it anyway.

"We" might not span as many people as you'd hope.

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Re:Therapy patients blackmailed for cash after clinic data b... by unishark on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @10:31AM (#24919122)

I'm referring to cryptography as the technology you can't put back in the bottle.

By the way there's dozens of other cryptocurrencies now. EDIT: just did a check, apparently there's thousands...

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Re:Therapy patients blackmailed for cash after clinic data b... by jaywalk on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @11:06AM (#24919595)

Ah yes, just make it illegal! Because obviously nothing illegal ever happens on the Internet.

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