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Paying the ransom should make you an accessory to the crime with jail time and all for the executive who cleared it. This should put an end to it pretty quickly
by rorykoehler 5y ago
Paying the ransom should make you an accessory to the crime with jail time and all for the executive who cleared it. This should put an end to it pretty quickly.
- breakfastduck 5y agoAnd also put an end to the organisations ability to operate making potentially thousands of people instantly and needlessly unemployed because their bosses didn't think security was important.
- wearywanderer 5y agoAllowing executives to commit crimes because imprisoning them would deprive workers of an executive is just plain foolish.
- breakfastduck 5y agoThe executives should be punished, yes, but I don't see why the entire workforce should be when insurance can cover the cost.
- willcipriano 5y agoThat is the system working as intended. Organizations, and those that lead them that can't hack it in the modern economy must be removed in order to make room for those that can.
- ryanlol 5y agoSo what’s the point of restricting ransomware payments then? Only organizations that can’t hack it in the modern economy will be affected anyway.
- duskwuff 5y agoRansomware gangs exist and thrive because their crime is profitable -- their victims are willing and able to pay. Make many of their victims unable to pay, and the equation changes.
- rorykoehler 5y agoSomeone with the correct competencies will get the job instead. Or better yet executives the world over will start taking security seriously.