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Not really, ransomware is way more dangerous than selling viagra; I may want to kill you if you encrypt my data, not so much if you sell me a couple of viagra p
by notgood 9y ago
Not really, ransomware is way more dangerous than selling viagra; I may want to kill you if you encrypt my data, not so much if you sell me a couple of viagra pills that don't work. When you scam someone (e.g nigerian scam) you take money from one (or a few) person only, here you are taking data from a lot of people and hoping some very few will pay; making a lot more enemies in the process, likely including state actors; which may make it a federal crime to pay such ransomwares.
- ryanlol 9y agoDiminishing returns, running spam botnets is already so risky that making more enemies by graduating to ransomware probably doesn't make a perceptible difference. Do you go to prison for 25 years or 30? Sure, you could probably deter ransomware by sending DEVGRU to murder the authors, but I doubt it's worth the political shitstorm that'd follow.