Have to think, these people don’t have moral codes like you or I, so trying to find the logic in morality isn’t going to get you anywhere.
Now that we’re past the obstacle of morality, we can get to the meat of it:
Hospitals have valuable data and a lot of essential systems. The users of those systems would pay a lot to keep it functional and accessible.
They have massive attack surface. There’s so many vulnerable points in a hospital that one could imagine, with a few insights, a few attack vectors just walking around one and being observant.
The staff often aren’t educated in proper practices, the dos and don’ts of infosec, and are also often overworked and very tired. This leaves them vulnerable to phishing attacks, tailgating, you name it. Trained about tailgating? A lot of them use RFID cards to access specific areas, and cloning those is trivial.
TL;DR hospitals are valuable and (sadly) easy targets.
Information to ransom, among other things that sebinspace said.
HIV diagnosis? STD diagnosis? Someone on hormones for gender-affirmijg purposes? Abortions? In places where these may or may not be legal or safe for such knowledge to be public, victims aren’t likely to think twice before panicking and paying up to not have their data leaked.
I found out last year my parents have no pension or savings. They are both over 60. It really stressed me out but my siblings seemed to have no issues. I was so glad that my mum pulled me aside a month later to tell me she had secrets saving stashed for them but it’s bizarre that up until then I heard no complaints from anyone else in my family.
This article is a year old, but even in the US farmers are taking advantage of the shortages caused by the war.
Local (Ohio) farmers near us have planted wheat for the first time in at least 20 years instead of the usually soy/corn yearly summer rotation. It's weird enough to see wheat in the fields that something must be driving it.
She’s not coming around. She knows it doesn’t matter what she says, so she might as well say something that makes her look good. She’s just as full of shit as the rest of them.
Sorry that’s either against the constitution or a commandment or is something out of revelations. Who knows. Point is people are going to whine and bitch really loudly and our legislature will just do something else.
It’s too bad local news agencies are owned almost exclusively by corporate giants who support the oil industry, otherwise the public might find out that catching a whiff of Chevron gas will almost always result in cancer.
Fuck Chevron. And fuck conservatives for making this world a goddamned nightmare. How long should we just stand here and allow these motherfuckers to continue killing us?
This is awful. Sick kids hospital in Toronto got attacked earlier this year but the group apologised and gave the decrypt key without payment. This is the least they could do here too.
Freeze their stock ticker. Dissolve their corporate charter and sell the assets to the highest bidder (excluding any banks of equal/larger size, of course). Corporate death penalty needs to be a thing.
Remember Mitt Romney said it himeself! “Corporations are People, my friend”. People can be jailed or executed, and have limited lifespans; so …
Companies will start using crypto as a way to recreate what scrip was back before it was banned. Meta made a play for that a few years back but luckily they failed.
Depends on the implementation, you can make contracts do anything, and if the bulk of the currency is premined and in the hands of the corporation, they can manipulate its value freely. Not every cryptocurrency works the way Bitcoin or Etherium work, some are quite centralised (see XRP for example).
Meta could demand that ads on its platform are paid in metabucks, pay employees (partly) in metabucks and manipulate the market by controlling liquidity. Essentially they’d be their own sovereign corporation issuing its own currency.
You should consider transaction fees though: someone’s gotta pay 'em. “Run their own chain” you might say, but then just use a database. Don’t need crypto-economic security when you’re the issuer and primary retailer.
That leads into having a public ledger. Great for public blockchains, but if you’re issuing company scrip, you probably don’t want outsiders auditing transactions.
Yeah, transaction fees can go to the issuer, so the corporation could double dip.
And as for transactions being publicly available on the ledger, SEC filings are public too, corporations openly bragged about raising prices beyond inflation and making record profits and they still had most of the populace convinced that the cause of inflation was just those darn lazy Millennials that didn’t want to work any more.
In the modern manufacturing consent era, it doesn’t matter that the truth is publicly available as long as you control mainstream media (which a corporation like Meta can easily do, first on their own platform and secondly by buying ads in the right newspapers).
This is unfortunately really common in East-Asia. Samsung employees live in Samsung apartments, ride the Samsung metro to work, pay for things with their Samsung wallet, while they listen to Samsung controlled news. Google would love to become the Samsung of the West.
Where does Samsung’s money come from? Like all corporations it comes from extracting the value of its laborers. If you’re working for Samsung, you are paying for the Samsung services, even if it’s not directly apparent.
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