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Reminds me a bit of Fantasia.

I've been thinking it would be a good idea to issue everybody a rocket at birth, and it can be deployed anywhere in the world, for any reason, with zero legal consequences. The catch is you only get a single use, and punishment for using more than your allotment of one would be death. So, sure...

Now that's somethin'. I didn't know faxes were that old. They performed like 19th century technology, but I assumed they just sucked, and weren't really from the 19th century.

I always wondered if hummingbirds got little ice cream headaches if they got the food right out of the fridge when I change the feeder.

Bitcoin's pseudoanonymous, and that's why it had a premium added for the ransom payment. It adds hassle to convert it to hard currency, and if your opsec isn't perfect, you can screw up and give yourself away, especially when it's a nation state that's after you.

Here's a clever, and fairly cheap operation that netted results... https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/06/fbi-sold-phones-to-organized-crime-and-read-27-million-encrypted-messages/ Wouldn't help much for Russians unless they left the country though. I think it was foolish on the...

That's a huge difference from these ransomware attackers. These guys definitely *are not* idiots, and even if they know where they are, how are they gonna get them? Send SEALs? That'll turn the cold war hot in about a millisecond. They serve Russia's purposes, and there's enough plausible...

Millions of dollars is nothing. NSA has tools that get used to sabotage nuclear development in unstable nations. They're advanced, and time consuming operations, and you only get one shot. Once you use your tool, it can be defended against ever after. You don't use stuff like that for a...

Hard to tell where ransomware comes from specifically though. Even when you know exactly which group is doing it, how do you get to them? NSA et al probably has some tricks that could be employed, but then you give up your tricks. They save stuff for high value operations, but ransomware to the...

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/06/us-seizes-2-3-million-colonial-pipeline-paid-to-ransomware-attackers/ Shit's hard. Attackers only have to be right once. Defenders have to be right every time.