[Link] The World's First Ransomware Came on a Floppy Disk in 1989

Read: 23/10/2021 www.vice.com

In December 1989, Willems worked at a Belgian insurance firm, and put the disk into a work computer. Bizarrely, it presented a questionnaire, the answers of which told the user whether or not they were in danger of contracting HIV/AIDS. Willems completed the quiz, and didn't think much more of it.

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[Link] The disastrous voyage of Satoshi, the world’s first cryptocurrency cruise ship

Read: 9/9/2021 www.theguardian.com

On the evening of 7 December 2010, in a hushed San Francisco auditorium, former Google engineer Patri Friedman sketched out the future of humanity.

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