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Russian Police Know Who Wrote Gpcode Virus

Posted by timothy on from the nyet-nyet-nyet- dept.

rifles only writes "Russian police almost certainly know the identity of the programmer responsible for the frightening 'ransomware' crypto virus, Gpcode, which has hit the Internet several times since 2006, says a story at Techworld, which has tapped a Kaspersky Lab researcher. Gpcode used 1024-bit RSA/128-bit RC4 to lock up victims' data, an uncrackable combination that left the world with only one solution: find the virus author to get the master key. So why don't the cops do anything? Good question, but this is Russia we're talking about."

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  1. In Soviet Russia . . . by Eg0Death · · Score: 5, Funny

    . . . virus encrypts you!

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    Why is this thus? What is the reason for this thusness?
  2. Tapped? by Hatta · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm not sure it's relevant who at Techworld is tapping who at Kaspersky Labs

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  3. Re:The enemy of my enemy is my friend by martyb · · Score: 5, Funny

    All we know is that there is a virus that encrypts your data. What is it that we don't know yet?

    I'll take a stab at that one: the decryption key! <grin>

  4. Re:ee+BfO3iVLaBGTTcTioI6Ax4 by beacher · · Score: 5, Funny

    B e s u r e t o d r i n k y o u r O v a l t i n e.

    Ovaltine? A crummy commercial? Son of a bitch!

  5. Re:The enemy of my enemy is my friend by NotBornYesterday · · Score: 5, Funny

    MI6 knows who he is. They used to have pictures, but they lost them.

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  6. Re:in America by Thiez · · Score: 5, Funny

    > Now that I've evenly offended pretty much everyone

    I was going to complain about how my country isn't on the list, but then I realized its very omission was offending me, implying it is small and insignificant. Sir, I must congratulate you on finding such an extremely concise way of offending the dutch.