Building Smarter Ransomware (Schneier on Security)

2017-03-07 14:15

Matthew Green and students speculate on what truly well-designed ransomware system could look like: Most modern ransomware employs a cryptocurrency like Bitcoin to enable the payments that make the ransom possible. This is perhaps not the strongest argument for systems like Bitcoin -- and yet it seems unlikely that Bitcoin is going away anytime soon. If we can't solve the...

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