Reply to post: Re: Ransomware

Washington DC police force confirms data breach after ransomware upstart Babuk posts trophies to Tor blog

Claptrap314 Silver badge

Re: Ransomware

You could manage something similar with burner credit cards, I suspect. There are LOTs of ways to wash funds, once they are in the system.

But the tech for coin is pretty much same tech that enables TLS. And I'm pretty sure was discussed before https was first implemented. Once the idea was out, it was going to happen.

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