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One thing people propose is criminalizing paying ransoms. I feel like this is short minded in that it may prioritize hig value targets like hospitals. I don't
by g82918 7y ago
One thing people propose is criminalizing paying ransoms. I feel like this is short minded in that it may prioritize hig value targets like hospitals. I don't have a good answer for how to avoid issues like criminals prioritizing health/ life companies. In general maybe raising the idea the targeting hospitals makes you less than human might help.
- Thorrez 7y agoWhy would criminalizing paying ransoms cause attackers to target hospitals? I would think hospitals would have a fairly strict compliance effort, whereas Joe Schmoe probably never even heard that it's illegal to pay a ransom.
- LoSboccacc 7y agowe need instead to fix laws around sensible data handling and criminalise it/managers that skirt around them, current laws are too vague, outdated and don't provide enough reparations to get people whose data was compromised to actually litigate them