I'm not sure that would matter - the FUD alone might just be enough. Everyone expects the ransomware authors to lie, but if the government picked a few high eno

I'm not sure that would matter - the FUD alone might just be enough. Everyone expects the ransomware authors to lie, but if the government picked a few high enough profile mid-caps to play along, made it look legit, folks would probable ignore the grumblings of the ransomware authors and attribute it to incompetence.