Here's a lovely story: the biter bit!

hazel · 10-21-2016, 02:40 PM

A French hacker called Ivan Kwiatkowski found that some scammers had targeted his parents, so he tricked them into downloading some ransomware from one of his virtual machines. You can read the story here.

petelq · 10-21-2016, 03:47 PM

That is a lovely story, Hazel, but let's hope the hero of it is always on the side of the good guys

syg00 · 10-21-2016, 06:08 PM

Given the nanny state Australia has become that would be mighty illegal here.
And because everything gets monitored, you'd probably get prosecuted. While the scum are laughing all the way to the bank.

Nice article on searching for sterile neutrinos linked at the bottom tho' ...

rob.rice · 10-24-2016, 06:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by syg00

Given the nanny state Australia has become that would be mighty illegal here.
And because everything gets monitored, you'd probably get prosecuted. While the scum are laughing all the way to the bank.

Nice article on searching for sterile neutrinos linked at the bottom tho' ...

depends on who has the most money the scum or the hacker