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BONUS: The Surprising Origins of Ransomware
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The Origins of Ransom Where Before
The first widespread insitant ransom ware was in 19 89. A man named joseph pop sent tens of thousands of floppy disks to aids researchers all over the world with a note saying that there was some useful data on them. Upon rebooting their machines, they'd get a message saying that to access that data, they'd need to send money to a pee box in panama. And in that way, they'dget their c key and access to their files.
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