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Symantec may have tried to bribe hackers, but definitely betrayed its own customers

Posted February 7, 2012 - 2:02 pm

Anonymous is laughing it up at Symantec's reputed attempt to bribe hackers to not release source code. Symantec calls it extortion. That question is trivial compared to the reality that Symnantec broke trust with its customers and left them at risk for six years following the hack.
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Best idea of 2011: Give control of Internet content to group that sued a dead grandmother

Posted December 20, 2011 - 6:12 pm

The RIAA, the source of much of the intent of SOPA, is a source of reason and justice online the way hyenas are on the African plain. Its intent is selfish, its methods are ugly, its goals are indefensible, and its results are undetectable. Who better to write censorship laws for the web?
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$1 million award offered to nab extortionist in data breach

Posted November 13, 2008 - 11:59 am

Express Scripts, the pharmacy benefits management company which recently disclosed an extortionist is demanding money by threatening to expose millions of patient records the company holds, Wednesday said it has decided to offer $1 million to nab the perpetrator.
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Laid off sysadmin arrested for threatening company's servers

Posted November 10, 2008 - 9:29 pm

A systems administrator was arrested in New Jersey Monday for allegedly trying to extort money and even good job references out of a New York-based mutual fund company that had just laid him off.
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