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Ransomware decrypts Taiwanese netizen's computer due to his low income


Netizen e-mailed the help line of ThunderCrypt because he couldn't afford the ransom  ^_^

 

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) --On May 4, a Taiwanese netizen emailed the helpline of ThunderCrypt ransomware after his PC got infected, and said that he only makes $400 monthly, and he couldn't afford the 0.345 bitcoin he was asked to pay. He later got decrypted by the helpline because they thought they have largely overestimated the nation's income.

 

A Breaking News Commune (爆料公社) member posted images of email correspondence between a netizen and an apparent representative of the ransomware ThunderCrypt on May 15. The netizen was asked to pay 0.345 bitcoins after the ransomware locked down all the files on his infected computer, he wrote an email to the customer service with title “I only make US$400 a month, you really wanna do this to me?” saying that he could not afford the ransom to decrypt his computer.

 

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ThunderCrypt responded to his message and told the netizen that they have switched it to decryption mode and will start to unlock his computer automatically soon. It also admitted that their Taiwanese campaign was a failure because they “largely overestimated” the average income of the nation.

 

On Friday May 12, a similar ransomware was launched called WannaCry, also known as Wanna Decryptor or wcry, which affected more than 100,000 organizations in 150 countries with Taiwan among the top targets.

 

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There was guy on here that said this the other day in a status update lol  That  he sent them his check stub and they unlocked his files.

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The human side of the bad guys :rofl: 

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if you going  to place the blame on someone why stop there ,  politicians are funded by  the Rich so really it's Rich people period  that never stop exploiting  the poor. If they have enough money  they can pretty much get anything they want done in politics.  A lot politicians were lawyers  and things they are use to taking money too get laws passed or not passed. It's all rigged by the rich so a poor person stays poor.. :(

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7 minutes ago, steven36 said:

if you going  to place the blame on someone why stop there ,  politicians are funded by  the Rich so really it's Rich people period  that never stop exploiting  the poor. If they have enough money  they can pretty much get anything they want done in politics.

Let's continue this thought experiment:

 

Who made the rich rich?

the poor; that's who.

Who made the poor poor?

the rich; that's who.

 

Who made the egg?

the chicken; that's who.

Who made the chicken?

the egg; that's who.

 

And this game --

continues.   ;)

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A poor girl wants to marry, a rich girl wants to flirt
A rich man goes to college, a poor man goes to work
A drunkard wants another drink of wine, and a politician wants your vote
I don't want much of nothing at all, but I will take another toke

'Cause I ain't asking nobody for nothin'
If I can't get it on my own
If you don't like the way I'm livin'
You just leave this long haired country boy alone

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If hackers want to get some big money, they should crypt american people's pcs. Can you compare a Chinese man income with an American?

ps. I never support hackers.

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Oh guys, these poems are cool....8)
Also I would like to participate, but , unfortunately I am caught with some projects.... tx38TOr.gif

 

10 minutes ago, mclaren85 said:

If hackers want to get some big money, they should crypt american people's pcs

 

It sounds a bit racist to me.... yXZVmpE.gif

 

Emoticons from @dcs18

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1 hour ago, mclaren85 said:

If hackers want to get some big money, they should crypt american people's pcs. Can you compare a Chinese man income with an American?

ps. I never support hackers.

that's a joke right? 43.1 million Americans live in poverty and even if you dont that still don't make you the rich  are like 1%. And China is a poor choice and shows what you know they have a closed internet so hackers don't want too fool with that . You know were most of the goods  are made that makes the 1% rich in the USA there made in China so most of those people in China depends on the USA  for money.. When you steal from the Rich  in the USA you're stealing from every country the USA have businesses in that depends on them for a pay check..

 

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Turkey is currently our 34th largest goods trading partner with $18.7 billion in total (two way) goods trade during 2013. Goods exports totaled $12.1 billion; Goods imports totaled $6.7 billion. The U.S. goods trade surplus with Turkey was $5.4 billion in 2013.  

 

You're county makes billions of dollars a year off the USA  and you won't  hackers to take there Money? A lot of the 1% money is stored in offshore accounts so they don't have too pay taxes on it so it's not even in. The USA.  is $13.62 trillion dollars in debt  and  there is trillions of dollars not in the USA that should  of went too the Government . If not rich and you don't pay taxes you lose everything you got.

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1 hour ago, steven36 said:

that's a joke right? 43.1 million Americans live in poverty and even if you dont that still don't make you the rich  are like 1%.

And many feel poor in a rich country

but many feel rich in a poor country.   ;)

 

 

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2 hours ago, Recruit said:

It sounds a bit racist to me

Never. Besides, I consider myself a socialist.

 

 

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2 hours ago, steven36 said:

that's a joke right?

I don't want ordinary people to be hurt. But those who have trillions of dollars deserves that. 

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15 hours ago, Jogs said:

politicians never stop exploiting the poor.

Politicians exploit the rich ones, too.

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15 hours ago, mclaren85 said:

Never. Besides, I consider myself a socialist.

;)

 

"Asses, swine have litter spread

And with fitting food are fed;

All things have a home but one -

Thou, Oh Englishman, hast none!"

~ Shelly.

 

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20 hours ago, steven36 said:

if you going  to place the blame on someone why stop there ,  politicians are funded by  the Rich so really it's Rich people period  that never stop exploiting  the poor. If they have enough money  they can pretty much get anything they want done in politics.  A lot politicians were lawyers  and things they are use to taking money too get laws passed or not passed. It's all rigged by the rich so a poor person stays poor.. :(

 

My friend, you didn't go full circle.  There aren't enough rich people in the US to get anyone elected.  They require the poor people to elect them.  So the very people who complain about being poor are the ones that elect the people who keep them poor.  Sad isn't it.

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3 hours ago, straycat19 said:

 

My friend, you didn't go full circle.  There aren't enough rich people in the US to get anyone elected.  They require the poor people to elect them.  So the very people who complain about being poor are the ones that elect the people who keep them poor.  Sad isn't it.

Not really , I know many poor people who never voted in there life  so they dont require poor people too vote it just requires the people who sign up . three-quarters of adult Americans didn't vote for Trump 

 

Who are the three-quarters of adult Americans who didn't vote for Trump?

.https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/18/american-non-voters-election-donald-trump
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The president-elect came second in the popular vote in November but the biggest bloc in the US electorate was those who for different reasons did not vote

 

If you were to knock on the door of a random house in a random street in America and ask a random person if they voted for Donald Trump, chances are they would say no. That’s because three in four US adults didn’t check a box in November to say they approve of the president-elect.

 

 

The rich people pay for there campaigns  and the  few that even cares votes , most people dont even care  that's reality . More people who lived outside the USA acted like they cared who can't  even vote  in the USA..

 

4 reasons why many people don’t vote
 

https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/4-reasons-why-many-people-dont-vote
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About 55.7% of the U.S. voting-age population cast ballots in the 2016 presidential election,

 

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/05/15/u-s-voter-turnout-trails-most-developed-countries/

Just  because they want you're vote dont mean they are going too get it. Around 45% of  the USA didn't  vote at  all  it would not matter if only 10% voted they just vote on how many who wants too vote... way more people didn't vote than are in poverty  45% didn't vote vs the 14.5% in poverty . Even the person who lost was backed with Hollywood's money and Trump was backed with the rich Republicans Money  :P

 

One graph shows how the rich control American politics

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They spend billions influencing America’s government. We give them trillions in return.

In the last 5 years alone, the 200 most politically active companies in the US spent $5.8 billion influencing our government with lobbying and campaign contributions.

Those same companies got $4.4 trillion in taxpayer support — earning a return of 750 times their investment.

 

https://represent.us/action/theproblem-3/

In the end  it don't  matter who gets voted in noway there all going to be bought off by the Rich . And if you dont got the big money too send there way you're  opinion don't mater because money talks and bullshit walks. Evey politician lies  to get in there and never does what they say there going too do because there bought off to change there mind.

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20 hours ago, mclaren85 said:

I don't want ordinary people to be hurt. But those who have trillions of dollars deserves that. 

Reality is most hackers don't care if you're rich or poor  they just want money ..Most people are not dumb enough too pay the ransom noway  and the biggest out break of ransomware in 2017  wana cry didn't  hardly infect the USA at all  and all they made off it was a $100k. The more money someone has the more likely they paid someone too do backups for them . But it don't take someone rich too back up there data were if they get infected to easily reformat and not pay them a dime.So what you wish and what you get are two different things..

 

No one has trillions of dollars some have billions is all Bill Gates don't have but $87.3 billion..

 

The richest company in the USA is Walmart  and they just have  $482.1 billion. there is no such thing as a trillionaire yet.

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Hacking is not cool  like people think it is  whats cool about ending up in jail or having to work out a deal with some government and working for them for free? A lot of famous hackers ended up helping the Government  take other hackers out. It just shows people watches too much TV like MR. Robot , Sort of like when I was growing up people wanted to be like Rock Stars Hollywood influences the worlds actions . 

 

It always has  been like this before hackers  there was the Italian Mob people use too look up to them as folk heroes because they seen it in the Movies then the FBI  got Hollywood  to make  anti Mob movies  and they started looking up at  the FBI . It's just a fad of the times.

 

Even when we were kids we read about Robin Hood  but  this is not reality . It's a dog eat dog world  and even the poor don't care about the poor they  would rather stick a gun too you're head and take what you have than look at you .. While the rich has the money to pay for bodyguards were you can't take what they got.

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