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by Synaesthesia 1839 days ago
No such thing as "under any circumstances". The circumstances determine your decision, and what your priorities are.
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Right. True. But I mean I'm not sure if my decisions would be based on logical priorities. The first experience really primed me. Terrorized me. Made me want to kill people who do things like that. The second, the one that didn't involve a human life, brought down a transatlantic cable and cost mid six figures not including me working 72 hours straight trying to get into my own servers to migrate them. I not only refused to pay the ransom, which was around $2k, I didn't even disclose the ransom letter to the clients who were down until it was over. I got on the phone with the FBI and devoted a solid chunk of time over the next year to hunting down the attacker. That's not a good priority. It came from deep damage and unresolved anger about the earlier situation.