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Of the three most common ransomware-combating suggestions I've been observing over the past few months, I'm strongly opposed to the first two (banning cryptocur
by meowface 5y ago
Of the three most common ransomware-combating suggestions I've been observing over the past few months, I'm strongly opposed to the first two (banning cryptocurrencies or banning ransom payments) and would instead strongly advocate for the third: reinstitute letters of marque for privateers.
Enable activity instead of futilely trying to ban activity. Instead of focusing on punishing the victims and unrelated third parties, focus on punishing and disrupting the perpetrators.
Or if not letters of marque, they could at least just issue a notice that certain activity will have a blind eye turned towards it, to mirror the policy of some of the governments that bear most of the responsibility for ransomware activity.
- boomboomsubban 5y agoSo your answer to the problem is to encourage more ransomware attacks? You don't think ransomware itself is bad, you just take issue with the idea that you may be the victim? Training more people to use it's probably going to backfire on you then.
- meowface 5y agoNo, I'm definitely not suggesting deploying ransomware or legalizing deployment of ransomware. Apologies if I wasn't clear enough in my post. By "enable activity" I just mean "instead of taking a general approach of trying to ban things to solve a problem, take a general approach of trying to enable certain other kinds of things to solve a problem". Not "enable ransomware activity".