I am not a particularly peaceful person but I do like to conserve my energy, which is why I don’t bother to personally hate most criminals—I tend to think they’re policy failures.

But this guy? The guy that ransomwared the Seattle Public Library and apparently has individually stolen employee personal data? Fuck this guy. I _hate_ this guy. I would expend unnecessary energy to ensure he has a bad day.

@Tarah I hope whoever this is stubs their toe on every table and corner, bites their cheek every time they eat, and whose water is harder than the great salt lake.
@indrora I hope the middle of their back starts to itch every time they almost fall asleep. I hope that no matter how many times they flip over the USB it never goes in the slot.
@Tarah I curse them with all their USB ports being the connector for Apple's "totally not a usb extension cable"
@Tarah - Who hacks a library? With what funds are they going to pay the ransom?

@tinker @Tarah a library is a target of a different kind; it's an attack on the ideology of promoting growth from the bottom up, to grow the people, and not keep them down where "they" think they belong.

Like those that attack medical facilities, but even worse because there's no monetary product to steal.

@tinker maybe this person is really bad at returning books on time and their ransom is to have their fines forgiven
@Midknight - Do libraries still do late fines? 🤔 But maybe! 😂

@Tarah
Same, there are a lot of who would be considered criminals I'd not waste my energy on.

But taking advantage of non-profits, libraries, hospitals, the elderly or kids? Go fuck yourself is what I say to them.

There is a certain point where you are just scum in my book.

@Tarah Ransomwaring a library is so very scummy! It's worse than ransoming radio telescopes...
@Tarah you are far away, but would you like to borrow my sling-blade?

@Tarah

That energy expenditure wouldn't be unnecessary.

It could be considered a moral imperative, along with those who ransomware hospitals 🤨🖖

@Tarah

One expression for this level of hate is "If I had a glass of water, and you were on fire, I'd drink it."

Screw this guy indeed.