Ransomware Goes to Business School
Good customer service has become a key part of a lucrative scam.
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Good customer service has become a key part of a lucrative scam.
Ransomware goes to business school.
Sometimes, like a total eclipse, my two great passions—technology and reality TV—become one. It happened in November 2017, when, on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, I cajoled then-Future Tense contributor Jacob Brogan into writing about the previous night’s Teen Mom 2 episode. It grappled with a critical question: Is it OK to shoot down a drone flying above private property? Jacob captured it brilliantly: The segment in question begins as (former) teen mom Jenelle prepares for her wedding to David, a very cool and normal dude who we will return to in a moment. David, stalking the pro...