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Did they find the template? It seems to have been something like this:
"As you can see, this email is coming from you. This means I've hacked your computer, and unless $300 bitcoin is deposited to XX-XXX-(a lot more numbers and such), I will share all your pron history, and erase your computer."
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The first recipient of ransomware was the Duke of Wellington. His response? "Publish and be damned".
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Israel has submitted the largest amount of ransomware samples since the start of 2020, according to a study.
Because they were fighting it or because they helped to "create" the biggest part of it (at least some of the components / exploits)?
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Israeli state operators may have developed some viruses, but they have only been applied against other state-level organisations (e.g. stuxnet, reputed to have been developed by Israel and the U.S., was only applied against the Iranian nuclear program).
Israel, has a large high-tech sector, As such, it is too vulnerable to retaliation in kind for it to spread viruses in the way certain Eastern European and Eastern Asian countries are reputed to do.
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ahem.... pegasus, ahem...  
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Here’s a re-implementation of the 65C02 in an FPGA, in a pin-compatible format that lets you upgrade those old computers and games to 100 MHz clock rate! "They've gone to plaid!"
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Quick, hide this from @CodeWraith.
GCS d--(d-) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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*POOF*
Just when you started to hope that I have not seen this... 
That's nothing new. I have been playing with stuff like that since 1989. In fact, my first PC actually was my old Atari ST with an adapter board that held both the original MC68000 ans a 80386, plus some adapter logic. An FPGA is simpler to use, since it can be reconfigured at any time to actually become any processor and adapter logic, all in one package. You can also test drive your own processor design or a variant of a processor that was never manufactured.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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CodeWraith wrote: That's nothing new. I have been playing with stuff like that since 1989.
Somehow I was expecting a similar response  I was expecting also a "pfff, I had it run a 1 Ghz watercooled and had Doom (2016) running on it" 
GCS d--(d-) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Microsoft isn’t moving to block unsupported installations and might even continue supporting these “non-compatible” Windows 11 with critical updates during the operating system’s lifetime. We're not not not not going to not let you upgrade. Honest.
Sorry, I didn't keep track of the nots in that one. Not sure if it's not true or not.
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Did you mean one of these?
"not not (not not)"
"not (not not not)"
"(not not) (not not)"
"(not not) not not"
"(not not not) not"
"not (not not) not"
Or one I missed?
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Even though backing up data is seen as a “central IT function” by many IT professionals around the world, most fail to create regular backups. And you've checked you can restore from those backups (that you're not making)?
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The saddest part is, that even when they are doing backups. Most of the companies make a simple FIFO system with max a couple of months... they will very probably fail against a patient hacker that just wait a time before really "attacking".
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Microsoft has released a major Windows Sysinternals update that updates 17 different tools in the collection and even includes a new tool, Desktops, which lets you launch up to 4 virtual desktops. Because I'm a fan of their stuff
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I wonder how many of them work properly..
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Before Pong there was Computer Space, the first commercial video game. Played it. Loved it
Way better than Pong.
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I remember running across this and hating it because the star background meant you couldn't tell where the shots were. Of course, I sucked at Asteroids, so I was already a bitter soul about 2D space games!
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Writing extension for Visual Studio can be a daunting task for even the seasoned developer. If only they could do something to make it easier?
Sorry, link to video training.
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I tried using a new C# 10 feature called implicit using statements and discovered that it wasn't quite as straightforward as I first thought and you should probably not use it under certain circumstances. Not explicit enough?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Rehan Saeed[^]:I tried using a new C# 10 feature called implicit using statements and discovered that it wasn't quite as straightforward as I first thought and you should probably not use it under certain circumstances.Not explicit enough?
It's ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) ed on release, wait for v2.0 in VS 2024/25 for them to work out the bugs!
Better?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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That should be the new Microsoft slogan
TTFN - Kent
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Great, so now I call Play() and my program "says" "Starting Global Thermonuclear War"
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Poor broadband and remote work made the scale of Windows updates a challenge that needed solving. So they could do more of them?
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And still most of it is bloatware or unneeded crap 
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The 90-year-old Star Trek icon was one of four crew members aboard Blue Origin's NS-18 mission as it flew to an altitude of 66 miles. No Orion slave girls detected, Captain
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