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Plain cruelty: Boffins flay Linux ransomware for the third time

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Schoolboy error

As an amateur programmer, even I know not to seed random with time,null, or the other countless ways I've seen people do it. Normally I get entropy from /dev/random to seed srand or rand_add.

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