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Re:'We have your porn collection': The rise of extortionware by soneil on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @02:48PM (#26638660)
What people store is entirely irrelevant to the scam. It doesn't matter if you've never seen a porn flick, never visited an adult site.

The template is to get a credentials dump, email the user's email, offer the password from the dump as proof (most people re-use the same password).

I know what you've been watching (no they don't), I recorded you on cam (doesn't matter if you have a camera or not).

It doesn't have to be bullet-proof. It only has to work once to pay off.

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Re:'We have your porn collection': The rise of extortionware by FDSGSG on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @05:50PM (#26641029)
This has nothing to do with the extortion scheme discussed in the article.
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