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All you get at that point is the right people using it to prosecute the honest people.
by hpoe 5y ago
All you get at that point is the right people using it to prosecute the honest people.
- bpodgursky 5y agoI think it would just give CEOs who want to do the right thing (and not pay) legal cover to tell the board of directors "Nope, not paying — the company is going to be shut down for a month. Deal with it, I'm not going to jail."
- russian-hacker 5y agoAnd it would give CEOs who want to do the wrong thing an avenue to destroy competitors under the table.
- Agathos 5y agoYou could always hire a bunch of shadowrunners to destroy your competitor's computer system, but I don't know what that has to do with ransomware. But hey, I guess you could use cryptocurrency to pay the runners.
- bpodgursky 5y agoThis has always been true... and always been illegal.
- _hyn3 5y agoWhat if it was more than a month? What if it was.. permanent?
- AnimalMuppet 5y agoThen they totally failed at continuity planning, backups... a whole lot of things.