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I totally understand the logic, but from a standpoint of "paying just encourages more of it" it shocked me to hear it from a security researcher. If people lik
by brightball 6y ago
I totally understand the logic, but from a standpoint of "paying just encourages more of it" it shocked me to hear it from a security researcher.
If people like him are telling you to pay, then people are going to pay, which will just create more and more and more attacks.
- meowface 6y agoI'm not an expert, but I do work in information security and I personally would tell people to pay, too. I strongly believe there needs to be a way to reduce the frequency of and counter these attacks, but I don't think banning ransom payment is the way.