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Re:Global ‘Wana’ Ransomware Outbreak Earned Perpetrators $26... by matt-attack on Monday May 15, 2017 @02:55PM (#14344127)
Ah yes, the old: "This action harms no one but yourself, but we wish to protect you from yourself, so the solution is to turn you into a criminal when you perform said action. For your own good of course."
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Re:Global ‘Wana’ Ransomware Outbreak Earned Perpetrators $26... by dsp1234 on Monday May 15, 2017 @03:04PM (#14344191)
This action harms no one but yourself

Paying a ransom is the opposite of this. The action only helps yourself, but harms everyone else, but providing funds to the ransomer.

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Re:Global ‘Wana’ Ransomware Outbreak Earned Perpetrators $26... by npongratz on Monday May 15, 2017 @03:57PM (#14344610)
> Paying a ransom is the opposite of this. The action only helps yourself, but harms everyone else, but providing funds to the ransomer.

Reminds me of my relationship with the people who call themselves the taxing authorities.

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Re:Global ‘Wana’ Ransomware Outbreak Earned Perpetrators $26... by paulgb on Monday May 15, 2017 @03:27PM (#14344381)
It's not to protect you from yourself, it's to protect you from others. It's like how some shops have "cashier cannot access safe" signs -- it's not necessarily that they don't trust the cashier, it's that it prevents the cashier from becoming a target.
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