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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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