[wongarsu]

If that's the case then just to clarify: I think ransomware is like a digital protection racket. You either pay up or they try their best to burn your business down. But it's even worse, because even if you have every intention to pay (which you shouldn't), it still causes you downtime that's probably worse than the ransom itself. It's not something I would wish on anybody, and it's a drag on the entire economy. We should prosecute the perpetrators wherever we can.

But if I had to assign jail sentences, a ransomware author would get a decade or two (add another decade in this case for manslaughter), a murderer would get a life sentence. Life over property.