[JumpCrisscross]

> does ransomware fall on that trauma scale?

Idk. That’s a step (sentencing guidelines) after we decide it should be criminalized.

> The maximum sentence is less than mugging after all..

They’re in the same ballpark, 2 to 6 years or so.

[nathanmills]

> That’s a step (sentencing guidelines) after we decide it should be criminalized.

You decide it should be criminalized before you identify any harms?

> They’re in the same ballpark, 2 to 6 years or so.

You can just look it up. Maximum sentence for mugging is 30 years, ransomware is 20.

[JumpCrisscross]

> You decide it should be criminalized before you identify any harms?

No. We have a measure of the harms. We haven’t balanced them for sentencing. Again, deciding something should be illegal doesn’t require obsessing over the sentence ex ante.

> Maximum sentence for mugging is 30 years

Not the norm, either for maximums [1] or usual sentences.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbery_laws_in_the_United_Sta...