Blaming companies for paying a ransom is like blaming a ship captain for surrendering to a pirate on the high seas. It’s ransom or death. The captain’s nation w

Blaming companies for paying a ransom is like blaming a ship captain for surrendering to a pirate on the high seas. It’s ransom or death. The captain’s nation wasn’t providing adequate security against piracy, another nation was condoning privateers. What do you expect them to do? Or better yet, what happened with privateering amongst the nations in history? First each nation unleashed its own privateers, then they built up and deployed their own navies, and the countries that couldn’t keep up fell under a new Pax Romana aside from fits and struggles. Where are we in this process today?