Re: Ransomware doesn't work
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Posts by SnowPatrol
8 publicly visible posts • joined 6 May 2017
Wannacry: Everything you still need to know because there were so many unanswered Qs
Shadow Brokers resurface, offer to sell fresh 'wine of month' club exploits
UK hospital meltdown after ransomware worm uses NSA vuln to raid IT
$6,000 for tours of apocalyptic post-Brexit London? WTF, NYT?
Italian F-35 facility rolls out its first STOVL stealth fighter
It's been a few days, so what fresh trouble has Uber got into now?
US copyright law shake-up: Days of flinging stuff on the web and waiting for a DMCA may be over
Hackers emit 9GB of stolen Macron 'emails' two days before French presidential election
Saturday 6th May 2017 10:25 GMT 
French law forbids the mainstream media from reporting election-related news within 48 hours of the vote, but social media has no such restrictions so allegations can go round and round without being disproved. Unlike the DNC/Podesta leaks, which AFAIK have never been shown to be faked in any way, this leak does seem to have fakes mixed in with real, boring emails. One tech news website is claiming that a PDF showing Macron applying for a Cayman Islands bank account is faked; apparently the forger forget to merge layers correctly.
(Actually, reading the article it seems that this PDF came out on 4chan before the email leak in response to a claim by Le Pen in the presidential debate this week that Macron had an offshore account in the Bahamas)
http://www.numerama.com/politique/254983-compte-offshore-demmanuel-macron-une-intox-venue-de-4chan.html (in French)
Biting the hand that feeds IT
