Earlier this week I was contacted by an old friend who was nervous about potentially having been hacked. The message read something like this: “I got this email saying they caught me doing something disgusting. They claim to have hacked my accounts and want Bitcoin, or they’ll share everything with my friends and family. They sent it from my own email address! Is this real? Am I screwed?” We met up at a café in a grey and rainy Helsinki, her laptop and phone between us, the screen still displaying…
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