Re:The No More Ransom Project
by throwaway2048 on Sunday October 30, 2016 @07:39PM
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This wouldn't really help, because much like spam, the costs are extraordinarily asymmetric, it costs essentially nothing to infect somebody and they need 1 payout in 100000 to make it worth it.
> Come to think of it, our news sources write bigger lies every day
Unfortunately they are also cut throat with regard to each other. The first paper that does this risks the rest of them running stories about that source scare mongering and deliberately spreading panic on behalf of [insert conspiracy theory and/or unpopular agency here].
Sounds like a good thing to me. The watchmen watch the other watchmen.
Or a single fake story about how ransom doesn't give your data back, published in a high-profile newspaper.
Come to think of it, our news sources write bigger lies every day, here they could actually do some good without any risk to their own reputation.