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PewCrypt Ransomware Locks Users' Files and Won't Offer a Decryption Key Until - and Unless - PewDiePie's YouTube Channel Beats T-Series To Hit 100M Subscribers (zdnet.com)
The battle between PewDiePie, currently the most subscribed channel on YouTube, and T-Series, an Indian music label, continues to have strange repercussions. In recent months, as T-Series closes in on the gap to beat PewDiePie for the crown of the most subscribers on YouTube, alleged supporters of PewDiePie, in an unusual show of love, have hacked Chromecasts and printers to persuade victims to subscribe to PewDiePie's channel. Now ZDNet reports about a second strain of ransomware that is linked to PewDiePie. From the report: A second one appeared in January, and this was actually a fully functional ransomware strain. Called PewCrypt, this ransomware was coded in Java, and it encrypted users' files in the "proper" way, with a method of recovering files at a later date. The catch --you couldn't buy a decryption key, but instead, victims had to wait until PewDiePie gained over 100 million followers before being allowed to decrypt any of the encrypted files. At the time of writing, PewDiePie had around 90 million fans, meaning any victim would be in for a long wait before they could regain access to any of their files. Making matters worse, if T-Series got to 100 million subscribers before PewDiePie, then PewCrypt would delete the user's encryption key for good, leaving users without a way to recover their data.
While the ransomware was put together as a joke, sadly, it did infect a few users, ZDNet has learned. Its author eventually realized the world of trouble he'd get into if any of those victims filed complaints with authorities, and released the ransomware's source code on GitHub, along with a command-line-based decryption tool.
While the ransomware was put together as a joke, sadly, it did infect a few users, ZDNet has learned. Its author eventually realized the world of trouble he'd get into if any of those victims filed complaints with authorities, and released the ransomware's source code on GitHub, along with a command-line-based decryption tool.
This guy is still monetized so he must be obeying all of YouTube's rules and regulations. Deek Jackson needed demonetizing though because he's a bad man who thinks 9-11 was an inside job. See how that works kiddies?
At some point, he did a stunt that contained some pretty anti-Semitic content
True but that would make him a Democrat (see: Trump and Golan heights for the opposite of an anti-semite).
Alt-righters gravitated toward him because they've been in a similar position
Almost the entire right support Israel and jews generally. Again, for anti-semitic hatred you can look almost everywhere on the Democrat side of things now. There are some that are not, but they are being drowned out and sidelined at the moment.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
As someone who subscribed to T-Series - you are part of the problem. PewDiePie's base is the young generation. YOU are the one is out of sync.
No buddy, you are. Literally, when you say "angry, bitter, jobless young men" as if that is not a problem or you don't get a sadistic pleasure in it. You DID when you gave your quite consent to far-left.
If only the jobless young men were crying instead of being angry, help feminists, fight among themselves etc. their condition will improve, isn't it? Come-on! Even you don't believe it you have given consent to these snake-oil solutions being peddled to young boys and men. The gig is up. It is indeed scary that if it goes down, it will go down for everyone.
PewDiePie is what we call "alt-lite", he dabbles in far right ideas and imagery but only as a "joke".
Examples include the use of Nazi imagery and anti-semitic tropes in his videos, and of course the infamous "death to all Jews" sign incident. Supporters claim he's just an edgy comedian but then far right mass murders tell people to subscribe to his channel on their murder-spree live stream.
So maybe he personally isn't really into that stuff, maybe he is, it doesn't matter. He acts as a gateway, normalizing it and even promoting it as a way to rebel against "the man" who for some reason gets all triggered by swastikas and people calling for genocide.
Rowling doesn't play to the progressive crowd, she trolls homophobes by making hot gay sex canon in Harry Potter.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
"Harmless" but that guy who murdered 50 people in Christchurch last week did tell people to subscribe to him on his live stream right before doing it... Because the far right uses people like PewDiePie to get people interested in their ideas even if only as a joke or way to rebel.
This does nicely illustrate the strange doublethink going on right now regarding people like PDP. On the one hand they are harmless, what they say has no effect and is just messing around. On the other hand freedom of speech is absolutely vital because speech is a powerful tool and the most fundamental way we communicate ideas and influence others.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC