That Cartoon Didn't Age Very Well

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That Cartoon Didn't Age Very Well

#1 Post by silverscreenselect » Tue Jun 08, 2021 8:10 am

Yesterday's cartoon from right-winger Michael Ramirez:

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Today's headline:

'Department of Justice Seizes $2.3 Million in Cryptocurrency Paid to the Ransomware Extortionists Darkside
The Department of Justice today announced that it has seized 63.7 bitcoins currently valued at approximately $2.3 million. These funds allegedly represent the proceeds of a May 8, ransom payment to individuals in a group known as DarkSide, which had targeted Colonial Pipeline, resulting in critical infrastructure being taken out of operation. The seizure warrant was authorized earlier today by the Honorable Laurel Beeler, U.S. Magistrate Judge for the Northern District of California. ...

As alleged in the supporting affidavit, by reviewing the Bitcoin public ledger, law enforcement was able to track multiple transfers of bitcoin and identify that approximately 63.7 bitcoins, representing the proceeds of the victim’s ransom payment, had been transferred to a specific address, for which the FBI has the “private key,” or the rough equivalent of a password needed to access assets accessible from the specific Bitcoin address. This bitcoin represents proceeds traceable to a computer intrusion and property involved in money laundering and may be seized pursuant to criminal and civil forfeiture statutes.

The Special Prosecutions Section and Asset Forfeiture Unit of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California is handling the seizure, with significant assistance from the Department of Justice Criminal Division’s Money Laundering and Asset Recovery Section and Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section, and the National Security Division’s Counterintelligence and Export Control Section. The Department components who worked on this seizure coordinated their efforts through the Department’s Ransomware and Digital Extortion Task Force, which was created to combat the growing number of ransomware and digital extortion attacks.

The Task Force prioritizes the disruption, investigation, and prosecution of ransomware and digital extortion activity by tracking and dismantling the development and deployment of malware, identifying the cybercriminals responsible, and holding those individuals accountable for their crimes. The Task Force also strategically targets the ransomware criminal ecosystem as a whole and collaborates with domestic and foreign government agencies as well as private sector partners to combat this significant criminal threat.
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Re: That Cartoon Didn't Age Very Well

#2 Post by BackInTex » Tue Jun 08, 2021 2:06 pm

You've obviously not seen much of the Andy Griffith Show. Andy, not Barney, always gets Barney's man.
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Re: That Cartoon Didn't Age Very Well

#3 Post by wbtravis007 » Tue Jun 08, 2021 3:15 pm

BackInTex wrote:
Tue Jun 08, 2021 2:06 pm
You've obviously not seen much of the Andy Griffith Show. Andy, not Barney, always gets Barney's man.
And who is Sleepy Joe’s boss/puppeteer?

Congratulations Madam Vice President! Keep up the good work!

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