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I'm saying that a virus that wants only to destroy, instead of get paid, is more dangerous than a virus that wants paid. It's the difference between a kidnapping and a murder.


What's the incentive for such a virus ?


Do you not remember viruses in the 90s like the ILOVEYOU virus? Plenty of hackers wrote viruses that maliciously destroyed data just because they could.


Schadenfreude?




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