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For me "Terrorism is, in the broadest sense, the use of intentional violence to achieve political aims", there is no political aims here, their goal is to extor
by y04nn 5y ago
For me "Terrorism is, in the broadest sense, the use of intentional violence to achieve political aims", there is no political aims here, their goal is to extort as much money as they can from their victims. This is a criminal activity and any small or big companies that pay for it are feeding the monster and should be persecuted. But the US has been ignoring it for years and now it comes right back to them.
- elliekelly 5y agoThey haven’t said ransomeware is terrorism, only that they’re going to prioritize it like terrorism. As in, it will follow a similar centralized reporting process. I don’t think the goal is to start sending hackers to Guantanamo or categorize ransomware as WDMs. Not yet, at least.
- bostonsre 5y agoThe willful ignorance and non-action by states that provide a safe haven for launching these attacks seems to be potentially political to me. If the attackers are state backed, then its definitely political. If the attackers are not state backed, it seems plausible that the state has made a decision to allow the attacks to take place because sowing chaos and discord in the united states is an aim of their government.
- viraptor 5y agoIt's the international "finger in front of the face, I'm not touching you" game. But by any reasonable interpretation, yeah, it looks the lack of prosecution of ransomware groups is lacking for one reason or another.