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New security measure idea:

Write a computer virus and infect your own system. Write it so it infects all the files on your system but otherwise identifies your own system and does no harm lying dormant.

If anyone hacks your system and downloads a file it will activate the virus and infect the attackers system and destroy it.

No not serious but the idea made me smile.

@freemo If the police would do this it would be entrapment or something.

@xyfdi entrapment is something else, but I can not say if it is legal in general

@freemo lets assume for our freedom and legal standing it isn't. 😉

@freemo

I'd imagine you could probably set up a honeypot situation and just have a bunch of important sounding files for idiots to encrypt with ransomware. Eventually they would probably try to use your machine as a VPN or Tor endpoint if they didn't notice immediate activity, and you could strike and see if you could brick their machines with one of those insane viruses that exists in firmware so wiping the machine cant remove it. I'd pay to see that.

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