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but the long game is that there will be no victims, because there is no money in it.
by appleflaxen 6y ago
but the long game is that there will be no victims, because there is no money in it.
- hombre_fatal 6y agoThere is always going to be money in it as long as there is ever anything worth ransoming. What's new here is a new type of criminalization and an incentive to hide your actions from the government. And if the ransomer is asking $5,000 and the government will fine you $50,000, then you have a good incentive to gamble on never getting caught, and that's already a game corporations play (very successfully) with taxes.
- bluGill 6y agoCorporations are not hiding their money from taxes out of sight. They are hiding it in plain site - the exceptions in the tax laws. Hiding out of site is basically impossible for any large company: somebody internally is sure to get disgruntled at some time and tell the police (often for a significant reward).
- Pick-A-Hill2019 6y agoThe Corporates just add a shield layer of employing an 'external consultant' who offers to 'find a way of fixing it'. In fact, there is already a term for it. A quick search of the term 'Ransomware Negotiator' provides citations.
- GoblinSlayer 6y agoThen all they need is to lobby for legalization of anonymous payments.
- jonstewart 6y agoIn the long run, we’re all dead.
- Uberphallus 6y agoThat's like expecting to have no drug addicts because you banned drugs.