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[...] 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.
ThunderCrypt responded to his message and told the netizen that they have switched it to decryption mode [...]
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Ransomware Operators Give Free Decryption to Taiwanese Man
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(Score: 1) by oakgrove on Thursday May 25 2017, @09:06PM (3 children)
WTF?
(Score: 2) by edIII on Thursday May 25 2017, @09:12PM
Reminds me of The Princess Bride.
Count Rugen: Beautiful isn't it? It took me half a lifetime to invent it. I'm sure you've discovered my deep and abiding interest in pain. Presently I'm writing the definitive work on the subject, so I want you to be totally honest with me on how the machine makes you feel. This being our first try, I'll use the lowest setting.
Count Rugen: As you know, the concept of the suction pump is centuries old. Really that's all this is except that instead of sucking water, I'm sucking life. I've just sucked one year of your life away. I might one day go as high as five, but I really don't know what that would do to you. So, let's just start with what we have. What did this do to you? Tell me. And remember, this is for posterity so be honest. How do you feel?
Man in Black: [issues a whimpering moan]
Count Rugen: Interesting.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 2) by cykros on Friday May 26 2017, @04:09AM (1 child)
Don't underestimate the narcissism inherent in many malicious hackers. As far as many are concerned, EVERYONE should be impressed by whatever exploit they've coded, and they're doing you a service by allowing you to donate to them, just to express how impressed you are.
Besides, considering some of the high profile organizations that this malware has managed to affect that plenty of lower class folk probably take issue with, it makes sense that some who wouldn't really want it affecting their own computers would nonetheless applaud what it's done to the rich and powerful. It honestly sounds like whoever made this statement perhaps watches a little too much Mr. Robot.
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Friday May 26 2017, @05:26AM
As another commenter noted, this is not the ransomware that infected the NHS, Telefonica and the Russian Foreign Ministry.