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Locky ransomware is spreading like the clap

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BitCoin... seriously?

Why is bitcoin still allowed to exist at all?

All I've seen for the last 2 years is how this BC "bank" lost millions of dollars worth of BC on a hard drive somewhere or this cryptoware is using BC to avoid tracing the money back to them...

Bitcoin sounds like something actually designed by criminals just for this sort of thing (and to slurp electronic money from suckers wallets).

BC should just be declared an illegal currency and any "bank" should have to return BC money to investors and shut down or face counterfeiting laws.

I'm pretty sharp on how this whole InterWeb thing works and I don't really understand why this is an untraceable currency. It's still IP to IP traffic and there should be logs on servers that would give away the account files being accessed at the time a transfer packet comes in, so why can't these bastards be tracked back by following the money.

Maybe since the FBI got hit last month they will take this all the way to the bank and actually find the degenerates behind some of it.

BAN BC now... this is out of hand.

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