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by __MatrixMan__
1814 days ago
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I think you'd just get a new category of bad guy--the one who charges you $500 to help you circumvent whatever legal restrictions are preventing you from paying your $10000 ransom. Or I guess two new categories, because the victims are all criminals now too. |
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The victims won't become criminals because you'll never find a senior executive willing to go to prison to pay a ransomware ransom. And no, "pay someone to pay it" or "have a random low-level nobody pay someone to pay it" is not going to work. Judges/juries aren't that stupid and senior leadership typically know judges/juries aren't that stupid.
Criminalizing paying ransoms would work, and this particular "they'd just pay someone to pay the ransom" argument against criminalizing paying ransoms is beyond specious. Criminalizing paying has worked with other, much more serious types of ransoms. Why wouldn't it work here?