[gruez]

To be fair, AFAIK it's just a consequence of how our tax code is structured. Business expenses are tax deductible, and ransomware payments just happen to meet the definition of business expense. It's not like congress got together and thought "yep, we should definitely make ransomware payments tax deductible!".

[oliwarner]

I'm not sure funding criminal enterprise should be legal, let alone a permissable business expense.

[antifa]

Obviously we should make the cost of recovering from an attack deductible instead.