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I think you'd just get a new category of bad guy--the one who charges you $500 to help you circumvent whatever legal restrictions are preventing you from paying
by __MatrixMan__ 5y ago
I think you'd just get a new category of bad guy--the one who charges you $500 to help you circumvent whatever legal restrictions are preventing you from paying your $10000 ransom.
Or I guess two new categories, because the victims are all criminals now too.
- throwawaygh 5y ago> Or I guess two new categories, because the victims are all criminals now too. The victims won't become criminals because you'll never find a senior executive willing to go to prison to pay a ransomware ransom. And no, "pay someone to pay it" or "have a random low-level nobody pay someone to pay it" is not going to work. Judges/juries aren't that stupid and senior leadership typically know judges/juries aren't that stupid. Criminalizing paying ransoms would work, and this particular "they'd just pay someone to pay the ransom" argument against criminalizing paying ransoms is beyond specious. Criminalizing paying has worked with other, much more serious types of ransoms. Why wouldn't it work here?
- ttyprintk 5y agoThe parent comment is not about fiat->crypto, but the other way around. A similar effect to stronger kyc on someone suddenly inexplicably trying to pay for a yacht with crypto.