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It is a scientific fact that there will be more of it. It's called operant conditioning. If you reward behavior, you get more of it.

If you think it's about the ransom though, think bigger. Can you even imagine how many billions of dollars silicon valley is going to make off it? They just paid Microsoft dozens of billions for some AR glasses.

How much for some software to prevent cyber terrorism? How much did TSA get to secure planes? $8 Billion/yr.

$18 Billion for border protection.

How much for cyber border protection? $100 Billion? Where will it go? Google? Microsoft? Palantir? Facebook? Twitter? Amazon?

Trillions.

They haven't even gotten started. $5 Million is pennies. Rounding error.