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Which is why you wouldn't pay it in the first place and which is why you would actually try to make your system secure instead of having an insurance pay for yo

• giancarlostoro 6y ago
  Some people might think their IT department is fully omniscient (or competent in other cases) and knows every flaw they could be targeted by which is why it would make sense to hire an external firm to audit you.
• 55555 6y ago
  > Which is why you wouldn't pay it in the first place Currently, ransomware operators could just decrypt half your files upon 50% payment, and demand yet another payment for the rest. But they don't. Why? Because they seem to have naturally converged upon honoring their decryption payments in order to maximize total profit. I think if paying the ransom was made more explicitly illegal, the ransomware operators would probably converge on not outing their clients. At least for now.
  • shripadk 6y ago
    > I think if paying the ransom was made more explicitly illegal, the ransomware operators would probably converge on not outing their clients. At least for now. Or they can threaten to release your information and demand more ransom to keep your information a secret. If you stop paying they'll make it public making what you did illegal.
    • bluGill 6y ago
      Problem is as soon as ONE decides not to pay up nobody else will either as they know they can't trust their payment will work out.