Why not just legalize the ransom payments? In a world where the IC was directed to fuck ransomware authors up, the money could be clawed back in most cases, or

Why not just legalize the ransom payments? In a world where the IC was directed to fuck ransomware authors up, the money could be clawed back in most cases, or even fronted by the taxpayers as bait for CNE: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20971785 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20971785 Heck, foreign APTs probably already masquerade as ransomware profiteers.