Gotta admit this surprises me.

First on CNN: US recovers millions in cryptocurrency paid to Colonial Pipeline ransomware hackers

Colonial paid $4.4 million in Bitcoin ransom and the DOJ recovered $2.3 million of it. Details are, unsurprisingly, pretty lean here, but the DOJ suggests that these particular hackers were amateurish and left exploitable back doors open. Thus this sort of recovery of assets probably won’t be the norm. Especially as the West Taiwanese ramp up their efforts to destroy and loot the rest of the world.

I have high, unconquerable and not at all sarcastic faith that that commanding presence, President Joe Biden, will use his tack-sharp iron trap of a strategeristic mind stand up to Putin and put him in his place, getting him to stamp down on the innumerable Russian hacking operations that have caused and will continued to cause trouble for the world economy.