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I’d be ok with it only if the ceo and the board are the ones going to prison and there’s a minimum mandatory sentence of (at least) one year with no possibility
by mcny 7y ago
I’d be ok with it only if the ceo and the board are the ones going to prison and there’s a minimum mandatory sentence of (at least) one year with no possibility of parole or commutation or anything like that.
- ikeboy 7y agoThat just sounds punitive. The goal here is to deter ransoms and ultimately reduce the incentive for ransomware, not to be punitive.
- mbesto 7y agoTo what avail? CEOs regularly make much worse decisions that create much more grave externalities (example - oil spills). There's much bigger fish to fry than for-profit hospital systems.... No offense, but this proposal is essentially DOA.
- austhrow743 7y agoCreating oil spills isn't illegal and can't be if you want to get oil. Different scenarios. As for size of fish, we don't go "why is theft illegal when there are murderers still roaming around?" We can have both be illegal.
- mbesto 7y agoMy point is that we very rarely give criminal sentences to corporate executives in the US. This seems like an odd one to start with.