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If something such as that were implemented, sure you'd stop a few, but it would just become an underreported metric. Making something illegal does not wholesale
by castis 9y ago
If something such as that were implemented, sure you'd stop a few, but it would just become an underreported metric. Making something illegal does not wholesale stop it from happening, it just pushes it out of view.
- ThrustVectoring 9y agoIt'd at least put a significant dent in public corporation's spending on it. If they share it in their audits and reports to shareholders, they get nailed on paying ransomware. If they hide that they paid out significant amounts of money, that's accounting and/or securities fraud. The biggest sensible course of action is to put the IT infrastructure in place that mitigates ransomware attacks.