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Strong stomach. >> there are issues about it. there is a lot more put on to you as a user to secure your bit coins than if you went to your bank and you have your dollars. the bank is responsible for all of your money. you are responsible for your bit coins. there are element that make it more secure, but there is a lot more responsibility put on the user to ensure that. >> there are few vendors that accept bit coins for physical goods. >> they will say what is bit coin? a lot of people haven't heard about this yet. as long as you can find somebody else who will accept bit coin for a payment, ...

>> the wannacry attack had a kill switch. this attack doesn't appear to have that. where it locked specific files demanding ransom for users to get access, this locks the entire hard drive, asking users to shell out $300 in bit coins. it crippled computers using microsoft. it rapidly spread across ukraine, russia, europe, even the u.s. among the targets, merck, the world's largest shipping container company and chernobyl was forced to witch to manual read yags monitoring. it's not clear who was responsible. some speculate it could have been a russian state attack designed to cause havoc in ukr...

You have somebody in your company or yourself and you inadvertently download a file and click it and launch it or go to a website that is a malicious website and you don't even know it. hit the wrong thing and it launches, basically, a virus on your computer and what it does, it attacks all the files on your network and it encrypts them. locks them down and then you get this horrible-looking message that says, you have to pay us a ransom if you want the unlock key to unencrypt these files. by the way, the ransom has to be paid in like bit coin or digital, i don't have any bit coins on me to sh...

>> i don't even know what you're talking about. i don't think disarming me or taking my privacy away. >> no one's disarming you. >> this is interesting. perspective, neither banning muslims or forcing facebook and twitter to monitor their users' accounts will make a difference to terrorists. because terrorists will come in and pretend they're not muslims. the other thing is, they'll use encrypted apps based in countries such as germany, which is what we just discovered recently. we'll have absolutely no jurisdiction. even if they are in areas where we have jurisdiction, they'll use levels of e...

And got his weapon? >> i don't even know what you're talking about. i don't think disarming me or taking my privacy away. >> no one's disarming you. >> this is interesting. from my perspective, neither banning muslims or forcing facebook and twitter to monitor their users' accounts will make a difference to terrorists. because terrorists will come in and pretend they're not muslims. the other thing is, they'll use encrypted apps based in countries such as germany, which is what we just discovered recently. we'll have absolutely no jurisdiction. even if they are in areas where we have jurisdict...