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> they made the right choice You can't say that definitively. It seems unethical and incorrect to me.

• superjan 5y ago
  They had to make the choice with the info available at that time. And exposing and prosecuting ransomware criminals could help to prevent future cases: The perpetrators are techies who are not street thugs, they could make money with legit work.
  • aqme28 5y ago
    I agree with everything you wrote, but I don't see how any of it proves that they made the "correct decision."
• AlexAndScripts 5y ago
  I suppose its subjective. In my opinion their job is to protect a whole nation (and, on a larger scale, the West)'s interests in the long run. If that means delaying the release of encryption keys in order to prevent future attacks, I think that's a worthy tradeoff. And even if the tradeoff didn't end up worth it (due to no fault of their own), their actions at the time were in my opinion entirely reasonable.