hacker:HUNTER - Wannacry: The Marcus Hutchins Story - All 3 Chapters

One day in May 2017, computers all around the world suddenly shut down. A malware called WannaCry asks for a ransom. The epidemic suddenly stops, because a young, British researcher finds a killswitch, by accident.

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[doms]

Media should be banned from publishing someone's address.

[mizuhonova]

Write code that enables stealing of banking info, you're looking at 10 years in prison.
Actually stealing money as a Wells Fargo executive, not even a slap on the wrist.

[j.b.]

the idea that dude just registered a domain and accidentally disabled this attack kinda glosses over that marcus had been a very talented and busy counter-malware researcher already by that point.

[homes]

3:52
Director: "Make it look as hacky as possible"
Guy behind computer, runs 100 instances of "tree" and "htop" and a 2nd screen with a world

[ByGraceThroughFaith]

When you know more than the FBI, you are a menace to them, even if you are a hero.

[wackyking]

FBI: couldn't catch the wannacry bandit, nah what the hell lets arrest the one who save the world from wannacry

[ZodMagus]

This was an excellent documentary. I'm glad there's some good judges out there

[FreshJv]

"It's only when you get older that you really learn what's right and wrong" Priceless.

[heyitsnayaa]

Hacker community really stands behind their own! It’s amazing.

[Janzer_]

$1-1.2 million dollars just to defend yourself. That's the real crime.

[mesmith]

As the saying goes, “No good deed goes unpunished.”

[pimpshiza]

Excellent presentation of the story, the overview of how important white hats are for future security, and in a nice digestible piece.

Thanks to those who made this!

[Jone]

Long story short, government thought they could screw him cuz he's poor but they didn't expect people online donating to his cause so he can defend himself in court

[jjackson]

The rare occasion when true justice actually prevails in America

[yasha]

The real crime was this guys beard 1:42

[jh-lpcg]

"In outdated versions of windows.." You mean in versions of Windows that didn't have the patch the NSA told Microsoft to patch to cover the Vault 7 leaks.

[myfriendmoses]

These docos are so high quality, hope this gets all the attention it deserves

[Mossbergg]

actually love youtube for recommending me this. loved it. kinda crazy that if he never went on vacation to vegas he would never been arrested probably

[Wahinies]

What a likeable fellow! I was working at an MSP during the Wanna cry outbreak and by then our client networks were patched and port forwards secured so did not get hit but I saw the kill switch news and not much beyond it so its nice seeing his character developed and happy ending to the legal ordeal! More episodes please!

[greendaleforever]

It seems that society hardly allows stories of redemption anymore but this just so happens to be that rare exception. I hope one day his story will be turned into a movie, one the likes of 'the social network'