Usually what happens is that these sorts of blackmailers will leak small, verifiable pieces of data so people know they really got something. We don’t see that here, so for now there’s no reason to take them seriously yet.
Usually what happens is that these sorts of blackmailers will leak small, verifiable pieces of data so people know they really got something. We don’t see that here, so for now there’s no reason to take them seriously yet.
This isn’t ransomware. This is standard blackmail.
This is pretty pathetic for positive spin. It reminds me of Zap Brannigan: “You see, Killbots have a preset kill limit. Knowing their weakness, I sent wave after wave of my own men at them, until they reached their limit and shutdown. Kif, show them the medal I won.”
It took me a while to accept cloud storage but I use it now. I backed up all of our family photos on Google photos.
The head wobble doesn’t have one simple meaning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gbrB8KwES4
I worked for many years with someone from south India and he would do the head wobble so over the years he tried to explain it. I still don’t fully understand it. Haha
Hmm this still doesn’t quite work for those of us visiting from kbin because from kbin we access this community as: https://kbin.social/m/youshouldknow@lemmy.world/ so even the /c/ doesn’t match up.
We probably will need some special markup that each instance converts to their own local community / magazine format.
Harming animals is absolutely a sign of someone being deranged. Many eventually escalate to harming humans.
Well they mention Github artifacts in that message so it sounds like it’s more like they may have obtained source code and that sort of non public stuff.