The Strange History of Ransomware

Another case of OS security architecture failure.

If your job is to design such systems, please read up on the long neglected capability security [0]. They are one of the lessons learnt from the first timesharing systems built in the 1970s.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability-based_security

> Six years after the AIDS Trojan was first unleashed, two pioneering cryptographers — Adam L. Young and Moti M. Yung — patched the holes in Popp’s leaky programming by developing a class of algorithms known as public-key cryptography.

I'm guessing they mean "Cryptovirology", not public-key cryptography. Public-key cryptography goes back to the 70's.