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I remember a more modern iteration of a virus that forces you to play an extremely hard game:

bleepingcomputer.com/…/rensenware-will-only-decry…

It demands a score of 200 million points in one of the hardest installments of Touhou on the highest difficulty. And 200M is pretty high, basically you need to finish all 6 stages and score reasonably well.

RensenWare Will Only Decrypt Files if Victim Scores .2 Billion in TH12 Game

A new ransomware called RensenWare was discovered today by MalwareHunterTeam that makes a unique ransom demand;  score over 0.2 billion in the LUNATIC level of TH12 ~ Undefined Fantastic Object or kiss your files goodbye!

BleepingComputer
A password manager? Could you explain why?
This may be a “loanword” from the student’s native language. In Swedish, they use “1900-talet” (1900s) instead of “twentieth century”

as a person coming from a totalitarian country, I would still prefer dealing with a single gang which also has its own welfare obligations can be corrected or overthrown when needed, than several mafia-like cartels which only care about extorting money from me providing nothing to both me and the society as a whole.

governments have responsibility, too, it’s just some don’t accept it

tbh, in this interpretation, it sounds like extortion, sort of what gangs usually do to minor business owners

tax is tax, it’s a mandatory contribution to society you morally and legally obliged to do, not a payment for not being killed

Which carries a spoon and looks French
“you are so smart, just a bit lazy”
Couldn’t agree more. Medvedev is just a miserable ex-“liberal” (and is probably now-alcoholic) trying to find his place in the Putin’s wartime system after his reputation was killed by Putin’s “castling” in 2012 and the film “He Is Not Dimon to You” in 2017
After a long-running blogpost holywar between Telegram and Signal, I perceive these “security experts” as Signal/Telegram shills depending on their stance
draw a Hatsune Miku