As a developer what is your view on "Wannacry Ransomware"

Question

Wannacry is recent ransomware virus infecting lot of systems..

Answer 1

extortion is extortion. bad what ever form it takes. who ever made it deserves a long stint in prison and a lifetime ban on all electronics

Answer 2

I Dunno I didn't sense that virus 😑
(No virus to this old laptop for 4 years now)

Answer 3

From the perspective of cyber defense (with development inside), I have not been a fan of the extortion code class.
Extortion works because people may be willing to compromise one thing for the sake of another... a bit of a vague concept when it's happening to 'not you'.
Want to know what it's like (don't do this, right?)--Easy. Remove your storage and--right now--smash it with a rock. Everything you kept, maybe all the special data unique to you: it's gone. Were you ready? Can you recover? Do you start over?
Suddenly a little more real, isn't it? That pause--when faced with instant, permanent loss--that might be a problem. How then do you engender a society that is invulnerable to extortion, or survivably resilient against it? What is the ultimate outcome of ransomware?
Edit:
https://www.sololearn.com/Discuss/410769/?ref=app

Answer 4

As a developer while writing code think about the security also !!!!

Answer 5

I blame it on Cryptocurrency.
Here's my amature simulation of what I think it looks like once you're attacked.
https://code.sololearn.com/WHIUz0X8E60e/?ref=app