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Ship 2 pounds of gold to a county that will happily accept bribes to not care and then we'll email you the keys to decrypt your network, otherwise we'll sell th
by frumper 5y ago
Ship 2 pounds of gold to a county that will happily accept bribes to not care and then we'll email you the keys to decrypt your network, otherwise we'll sell the data.
- MontyCarloHall 5y agoIf that were the outcome of said legislation, it would make the barrier to entry for executing a ransomware attack much, much higher than it is today. Wouldn’t that be a successful outcome?
- frumper 5y agoI don't think the barrier to entry is higher. You're just asking for them to send something physical, you don't have to do any extra work. I'm making an assumption that a lot of the current problems with ransomware originate from criminal gangs in countries that already look the other way. Maybe that is a poor assumption. A company could be less likely to mail cash instead of clicking a button though.
- MontyCarloHall 5y agoThe barrier to entry is higher because the criminals need to be set up to anonymously receive an international shipment of physical currency/commodity. Apart from overcoming the logistical complexity of sending such a package (e.g. customs), the criminals would have to bribe the right officials to anonymize their physical address, which while not impossible is definitely a much higher barrier to entry than asking for cryptocurrency to be sent to some crypto wallet address, which any script kiddie can do.