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Re: Mike Hearn, Foundation's Law & Policy Chair, is pushing blacklists right now
by
Peter R
on 15/11/2013, 02:27:09 UTC
The fact that cryptolocker was not the first instance of ransomware does not make my statement false.

It does not, indeed.
If you agree explaining to me how redlisting coins would help, and how bitcoin make you more vulnerable to ransomware...
I'll tell you a nice story called Reveton.

What I said had nothing to do with red-listing coins!  I was just pointing out two things:

1. That after meeting a CryptoLocker victim in person, I could tell that they did not relate bitcoin to CryptoLocker.  She thought the virus was "evil Russian hackers" and that bitcoins were these things she could buy from the Robocoin ATM in downtown Vancouver.  

2.  That CryptoLocker, in a twisted sense, may actually be teaching mankind an important lesson in computer security. 

I think any change to bitcoin based on "CryptoLocker" would be unwise ridiculous.  
I think any change to bitcoin based on "CryptoLocker" would be unwise ridiculous.
I think any change to bitcoin based on "CryptoLocker" would be unwise ridiculous Bitcoin is great as is.