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For conversation's sake, what if the victim is a small/mid-size business where the entire business would be destroyed in the event their systems are not unlocke

by jb775 7y ago

For conversation's sake, what if the victim is a small/mid-size business where the entire business would be destroyed in the event their systems are not unlocked immediately? Do they choose between possible prison time or definite loss of everything? Enforcing a fine relative to the ransom paid (and maybe relative to the "if we wouldn't have paid it" severity) is probably a good immediate start. This would at least galvanize businesses to improve existing security.

austhrow743 7y ago
Small businesses would have been destroyed by all sorts of rules that have already been passed. Companies whose entire service was dumping asbestos in to lakes or companies who only managed to turn a profit by hiring child labour. Their owners had to choose between possible jail time or losing everything. Every single thing done by a government, or really just any large player in the market place, is going to have small businesses that get flattened by it. That your entire company could be wiped out by changes in the marketplace, including laws, is one of the risks a person assumes when they decide to start a small business instead of working as an employee. They're earning their slice of the money pie in part by assuming that risk.