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Re: Ransomeware
From: Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 22:35:01 +0000 (GMT)
I got one of the disks (followed by a ton of others), and I did an analysis of it. As I recall, he encrypted the filenames. On Sun, 19 Mar 2006, Nick FitzGerald wrote:
Drsolly wrote:First done in 1990, the AIDS Information disk. ...Well, IIRC and if we can trust the date stamps of Her Majesty's Royal Mail service, I think technically Popp did this in early/mid December 1989...... Dr Popp was charged with blackmail, and pleaded insanity.I'm not sure he actually pleaded insanity (he was extradited from the US to the UK, where he was found guilty, and he was tried in absentia in Italy and also found guilty), but his practise of wearing a paper bag over his head may have been a contributing factor in in that belief (he was certainly a few sandwiches short of the full picnic...). There was also some evidence (found in the US when he was arrested by the FBI (?) to face the UK extradition hearing??) that the Dec 89 postal drop in the UK was possibly a "trial run" for a much larger drop Popp was planning. Given the stir I seem to recall this story making (though maybe that's exaggerated by the fact New Zealand is/was more closely attuned to "UK news") at the time (and we received a copy of the disk in the computer center at the local university where I worked, so it was a little "closer to home" for me) there is surprisingly little quality information about it on the web, but as I suggested in my earlier response, a little Googling can turn up some good stuff... Regards, Nick FitzGerald _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- Re: Ransomeware, (continued)
- Re: Ransomeware Nick FitzGerald (Mar 17)
- Re: Ransomeware Gadi Evron (Mar 17)
- Re: Ransomeware Valdis . Kletnieks (Mar 17)
- Re: Ransomeware Nick FitzGerald (Mar 18)
- Re: Ransomeware Gadi Evron (Mar 17)
- Re: Ransomeware Drsolly (Mar 18)
- RE: Ransomeware Richard M. Smith (Mar 18)
- Re: Ransomeware Tom Van Vleck (Mar 18)
- Re: Ransomeware Nick FitzGerald (Mar 18)
- RE: Ransomeware Nick FitzGerald (Mar 18)
- RE: Ransomeware Richard M. Smith (Mar 18)
- Re: Ransomeware Nick FitzGerald (Mar 18)
- Re: Ransomeware Drsolly (Mar 18)
- Re: Ransomeware Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah (Mar 19)
- Re: Ransomeware Nick FitzGerald (Mar 19)
- Re: Ransomeware Nick FitzGerald (Mar 17)