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Micheal

Post subject: Ransomware

Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2012 11:35 pm

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Nasty new virus going around. Ven alerted me, he's working on computers now and then now.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ransomware_%28malware%29

Many of you probably know of it already, but if anyone claims to be from the FBI, don't trust them anymore than you normally would.

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Kaffis Mark V

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Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2012 7:25 am

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Neal Stephenson, your crystal ball is getting more myopic...

Snow Crash: 1992 -- Second Life: 2003
Cryptonomicon: 1999 -- BitCoins: 2009
Reamde: 2011 -- rise of ransomware: mid-2000's to present...

On a more serious note, I just wanted to plug Reamde.

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