FBI Issues Warning: A Scary Realistic New Scam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh3nmSn8SL4

 

White Lies Matter ransom note: Selma Confederate monument will become ‘toilet’ unless demands met - The Washington Post

...The banner reads: "The rulers of this country have always considered their property more important than our lives,"...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/04/06/ransom-confederate-chair-selma/

Team Trump tries to deflect news they agreed to $2 million payment for Otto Warmbier release - Daily Kos

Everyone in the Trump "administration" lies about everything, all the time, reflexively, the end. After the Washington Post learned that Donald Trump personally approved a promised $2 million to North Korea for the "medical care" of comatose American prisoner Otto Warmbier, Trump got predictably peeved and called the report "fake news." ....
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/4/29/1854131/-Team-Trump-tries-to-deflect-news-they-agreed-to-2-million-payment-for-Otto-Warmbier-release

Tim Cook’s refusal to help FBI hack iPhone is validated by ‘WannaCry’ ransomware attack

The proliferation of the WannaCry ransomware last week unequivocally justifies Apple’s steadfast refusal to help the FBI break into an iPhone 5c used by one of the San Bernardino terrorists. As a quick refresher, the FBI last year wanted Apple engineers to create a brand new version of iOS that would allow them to skirt around iOS security measures. As a precaution, a security setting in iOS wipes a device clean after 10 erroneous passcode entry attempts. The FBI, as a result, tried to force Apple to release a specialized version of iOS that would not include this security limitation....
http://bgr.com/2017/05/15/wannacry-ransomware-apple-ios-tim-cook/

How to Protect Your Digital Privacy in the Era of Public Shaming - ProPublica

Americans face unprecedented threats to the digital safety of their personal information. We offer nine tips to foil hackers, ransomware, online trackers, data brokers and other menaces....
https://www.propublica.org/article/how-to-protect-your-digital-privacy-in-the-era-of-public-shaming

Donald Trump's Mostly False claim that $400 million payment to Iran was 'ransom'

Back in January, Iran released five American prisoners back to the United States. On the same day, the United States transferred $400 million in cash to Iran, holding onto the money until three of the freed Americans were in the air, on their way home.

Some critics of President Barack Obama’s foreign policy -- including Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump -- are putting the two happenings together and calling it a "ransom" payment. The administration denies that characterization.

"Iran, the world's top state sponsor of terrorism, has been put on the path to nuclear weapons, was given $400 million in ransom payment cash, where they just yesterday caught Obama in yet another lie," Trump said in an Aug. 21 speech in Michigan.

While some in the national security community might consider the transaction unsavory, ineffectual, or legally questionable, calling it "ransom" isn’t quite accurate....
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/aug/24/donald-trump/donald-trump-calls-400-million-payment-iran-ransom/