

An iPadBook, huh? Its a bold move, Cotton…
I had a work laptop with a touchscreen and used that functionality exactly 0 times (after trying it out). If it had the ability to fold back into a Lenovo Yoga-style tablet form factor, it would have been a completely different story, though.


This is a wild read. I’d recommend reading the article, but the tl;dr is…
He charged customers up to 20 times the ransom amount ($150K vs $8K in the example), paid the ransom to get their data back, and pocketed the difference as easy profit.
He refused to reveal his “trade secret” method, but it was all A-OK when they thought it was “magic”, and now everybody’s mad at being deceived. 😄