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Re:'We have your porn collection': The rise of extortionware by SilasX on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @02:17PM (#26638209)
I don’t even think extorting money out of the victims is even the worst thing they can do. What if they use it to coerce the victims to act as pawns or sleeper agents in crimes? You could get them to plant weapons, rob banks, kill people, all in ways that have the actual mastermind several degrees removed.
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Re:'We have your porn collection': The rise of extortionware by x86_64Ubuntu on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @02:21PM (#26638268)
I think you are overthinking it. Most folks just want the money, and aren't some mastermind sitting in a lair looking for pawns. The only exceptions I can think of would be intelligence operations, where such blackmail could pay longterm dividends, but in that case the money isn't the goal.
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Re:'We have your porn collection': The rise of extortionware by bluGill on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @03:45PM (#26639437)
Right now. However there are a few nations with the resources and motivation to pull this off. You might not personally be worth a lot to them, but when the cost is low they can make something of it.
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Re:'We have your porn collection': The rise of extortionware by ctoth on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @02:43PM (#26638578)
Or an AI

https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/04/07/no-physical-substrate-...

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Re:'We have your porn collection': The rise of extortionware by gruez on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @02:29PM (#26638399)
Sounds like the plot to a black mirror episode https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shut_Up_and_Dance_(Black_Mirro...
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Re:'We have your porn collection': The rise of extortionware by sbarker on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @02:28PM (#26638390)
I saw that Black Mirror, I couldn't make the leap to it happening in real life... Maybe I just don't get it.
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Re:'We have your porn collection': The rise of extortionware by rolph on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @02:44PM (#26638604)
the trollface meme was sent to that guys phone in the end.

i took it to mean it was extreme trollcraft, rather than money motivation.

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Re:'We have your porn collection': The rise of extortionware by throway98752343 on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @02:45PM (#26638613)
Extracting Bitcoin is already difficult.

But if the kompromat is child porn-level illegal than you could be right.

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