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Re:U.S. to give ransomware hacks similar priority as terrori... by unishark on Thursday June 03, 2021 @10:35PM (#27389926)
The headline might be vague (though I'd personally love to see drone strikes on the scumbags that scam elderly people to of their meager savings) but the article itself talks in terms of priority and effort for investigations into malware attacks. E.g., they won't just shrug and do nothing because they care about other crimes more, like with my stolen GPS case.
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Re:U.S. to give ransomware hacks similar priority as terrori... by makeworld on Thursday June 03, 2021 @11:25PM (#27390222)
I'm astonished you would support drone strikes on civilians. Scammers are working a bad job out of necessity. They are not villains who deserve to be extrajudicially murdered.
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Re:U.S. to give ransomware hacks similar priority as terrori... by tluyben2 on Thursday June 03, 2021 @11:55PM (#27390383)
The professional nature these scams are now (call from 'Microsoft', steal a little and then send properly dressed and documented people to the house to 'investigate the fraud' and steal more) is not desperate people scamming. Sure they do not have to be murdered, but removed from society is not a bad plan. These are pro organizations, not a handful of poor people anymore.
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