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Re:ProtonMail pays $6k ransom, gets taken out by DDoS anyway by skybrian on Sunday November 08, 2015 @12:30AM (#10527632)
Sometimes this is good advice. For some rather vivid counterexamples, read up on Genghis Khan.

Computer security is of course a whole different thing.

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Re:ProtonMail pays $6k ransom, gets taken out by DDoS anyway by brianwawok on Sunday November 08, 2015 @10:20AM (#10528690)
The wrath of the Khans was amazing.

Seemed like your odds of dying were pretty high either way. Give him all your stuff and starve. Or say no and get beheaded..

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Re:ProtonMail pays $6k ransom, gets taken out by DDoS anyway by intrasight on Sunday November 08, 2015 @11:08AM (#10528834)
And let's not forget that 1 in 200 people around the world are his direct descendants
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Re:ProtonMail pays $6k ransom, gets taken out by DDoS anyway by christophilus on Sunday November 08, 2015 @02:11PM (#10529439)
https://xkcd.com/1545/
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Re:ProtonMail pays $6k ransom, gets taken out by DDoS anyway by intrasight on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @10:42PM (#10544709)
nice one!
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Re:ProtonMail pays $6k ransom, gets taken out by DDoS anyway by effie on Sunday November 08, 2015 @02:34PM (#10529529)
How do you know that?
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Re:ProtonMail pays $6k ransom, gets taken out by DDoS anyway by brianwawok on Friday November 13, 2015 @12:26PM (#10561022)
Its quoted in Wrath of the Kahns, not sure the original source.
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Re:ProtonMail pays $6k ransom, gets taken out by DDoS anyway by fsloth on Monday November 09, 2015 @12:01PM (#10534158)
"Give him all your stuff and starve. Or say no and get beheaded.."

I'm not sure about the starving part, would you have any references? If a city surrendered he did not sack it. If it did not - yeah, bad.

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Re:ProtonMail pays $6k ransom, gets taken out by DDoS anyway by 69_years_and on Sunday November 08, 2015 @02:08AM (#10527822)
Yes, pros and cons, its quite possible that by paying one then has enough breathing space to set up better defences.
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