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Why would they keep releasing it, and release it in the first place, with such a simple kill-switch. Doesn't make much sense.

Reminds me of the Archer episode where Cyril plants the computer virus and was going to be the hero by "fixing" it.



It's possible that people are taking the code, modifying it to add in a new kill switch address, change the bitcoin address and leave every thing else as it is. Usually because they don't understand the code but can do a ctrl+f, delete and replace with the necessary info. Script kiddies of the malware world.




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