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Isn't this likely short sighted in the same way that people talk about draconic enforcement of immigration laws? Criminalizing ransoms will result in victims d
by perl4ever 6y ago
Isn't this likely short sighted in the same way that people talk about draconic enforcement of immigration laws?
Criminalizing ransoms will result in victims doing it in secret, not in the elimination of ransoms. People won't be able to share information, and the financial incentive will continue to exist.
- nradov 6y agoIf you were a corporate executive would you risk hard prison time just to save your employer from taking a loss? The whole point of imposing draconian penalties is to make such attacks unprofitable. If the attackers know they won't be able to extract any money from victims then they'll move on to some other scheme.
- learc83 6y agoExecutives don't go to jail when their companies kill people. There's no way we manage to restructure our justice system so that they go to jail for paying ransoms.
- newen 6y agoThere are reasons why companies manage to do tons of illegal things. A lot of executives would have a good amount of their wealth in company stocks, for example. This has no reason to be an exception.
- sumedh 6y agoBanks deal with cartels and other bad guys, they make lot of money and pay a small fine when they get caught. Why do you think paying ransoms would be different?
- TylerE 6y ago> If you were a corporate executive would you risk hard prison time just to save your employer from taking a loss? Uh, have you looked at all the corporate scandals of the last, say, 40 years? White collar execs never do hard time anyway. At the absolute worst they get 6 months at some cushy minimum security... aka Club Fed.