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Yes, heaven forbid law enforcement perform work to enforce the law. That would be a terrible outcome. In non-sarcastic words, I'm unsure what point your comme

• hombre_fatal 6y ago
  I assume they are referring to victims hiding their payments from the government. It definitely just looks like an additional ingredient in this wild goose chase.
• fennecfoxen 6y ago
  It’s hard to get cooperation from a crime victim if cooperating is rewarded only with a choice between ruin through loss of his business and ruin through criminal charges. You’ll just see silence as people rationally seek to avoid ruin and fail to report the crime at all.
• bluGill 6y ago
  That is hard to do when the criminal is hiding in a different country. Russia is often accused of helping these criminals.
• 627467 6y ago
  The point of my comment should becomes clearer if the first few paragraphs is read: the author thinks it's great idea to tell law enforcement to target victims through an hypothetical law he is proposing that would make it illegal to pay ransoms. He's basing his opinion on treasury department decision to (seemingly) ban ransom payments to ransomware groups. What he seems to be misrepresenting is: treasury department is not banning ransom payments. They are clarifying that payments (including ransom ones) to an entity on sanctioned list is illegal. How does this translate to the rest of ransom requests seen in society is beyond me. Are we setting up a precog unit to classify all people and entities in the world as sanctioned/non-sanctioned?
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