Locked Out of My Ransomware

I wrote ransomware for practice. Locked myself out. Paid myself. Still didn’t get the files back.

A tweet about someone writing ransomware for practice, locking themselves out, and paying themselves without recovering the files plays above a rapidly changing reaction clip. The footage shows a distressed person outdoors, then a bespectacled man in a dim interior smoking and gesturing dramatically. The joke is the absurd escalation of a cybersecurity mistake into total self-inflicted failure.

• @dev_meme / 6927 2025-06-27