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The HN title matches the article headline, but the article headline is horribly inaccurate. This is not about making ransom payments illegal, as many commenter
by ooterness 3y ago
The HN title matches the article headline, but the article headline is horribly inaccurate.
This is not about making ransom payments illegal, as many commenters have assumed. They are setting up an international information-sharing system to help track cryptocurrency wallets that are receiving ransom payments.
- arbuge 3y agoIndeed. "take steps to try to end" would have been more accurate.
- kube-system 3y agoThe headline isn't inaccurate. "End ransomware payments" doesn't necessarily mean "make illegal the act of victims sending ransom payments", even though many are presuming that. Most of the action on this is on the receiving end of the payment process -- making it difficult for criminals to cash out, freezing their assets, or finding them.
- dang 3y ago(The submitted headline was "US-led coalition of nations agrees to end ransomware payments to hackers". We since changed the URL - more at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38088780 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38088780.)