[realhackhistory@home]# on Nostr: It took quite a while hunting through newspaper archives, but this is what Joseph ...
It took quite a while hunting through newspaper archives, but this is what Joseph Popp actually looked like when he was arrested. Weird that someone considered the grandfather of ransomware is so poorly documented. Sources online get the date of his death wrong & the spelling of his middle name too.
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