Only if the goal is to actually spread fear in a civilian population. It's not clear what the motivation is here besides "the worm spreads itself lol".
The dead man's switch reminds me of worms and viruses from my childhood, whose primary purpose was apparently just to wreak havoc rather than direct financial gain. It's a childish gimmick.
If an infected computer gets disabled after deactivating one stolen credential, it might slow down the victim from deactivating their other stolen credentials.
the Karen one gave me a good laugh :D ;) reminds me of a `make`-based build script I once got when reviewing a classmate's project - it attempted to `rm -rf` my home folder if the hostname contains `bpavuk`. that was in seventh grade!!
I have kinda been the most hated guy in that city. constant movement across Ukraine, mentality mismatch, all the usual things. my family was treated as foreigners everywhere except Kyiv.
and you know what? I'm grateful to them all for leveling up my opsec, among other things :)
the GitHub bot law: the GitHub bot situation is way worse than you imagine even if you are aware of the GitHub bot law.
yes, a cheap parody on Hofstadter's law, but that's how bad it is
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