DarkSide ransomware gang quits after servers, Bitcoin stash seized

Re:DarkSide ransomware gang quits after servers, Bitcoin sta... by omgwtfbbq on Friday May 14, 2021 @05:04PM (#27159679)

Just like how robbing a bank may cause terror to the people in the bank or the neighborhood but it was done for profit not politics.

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Re:DarkSide ransomware gang quits after servers, Bitcoin sta... by suifbwish on Friday May 14, 2021 @07:33PM (#27160779)

Wealth is the primary means of expanding ones political influence. It’s a primitive tool like a talking stick to coerce all the other monkeys to do shit for you. Trying to gain money is absolutely political

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Re:DarkSide ransomware gang quits after servers, Bitcoin sta... by Dylan16807 on Friday May 14, 2021 @08:14PM (#27161044)

I think you just defined yelling at someone over money to be terrorism.

You can make a reasonable argument that "nothing is apolitical" but but that's not the definition of political being used when people say what terrorism is.

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Re:DarkSide ransomware gang quits after servers, Bitcoin sta... by suifbwish on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @02:36PM (#27212607)

You are correct; that is the consequence of taking the definition to its ultimate conclusion. Either our definition of terrorism is incomplete or our idea of money is.

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