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Re:Another Ransomware Outbreak Is Going Global by dzhiurgis on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @06:58PM (#14650328)
It's like saying best way to fight heroin addicts is to supply market with poisoned heroin. No heroin users - no problems!
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Re:Another Ransomware Outbreak Is Going Global by drhodes on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @10:17PM (#14651253)
The US government did this with alcohol during prohibition,

> by the time Prohibition ended in 1933, the federal poisoning program, by some estimates, had killed at least 10,000 people.

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_exa...

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Re:Another Ransomware Outbreak Is Going Global by notgood on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @02:01AM (#14652006)
A non-strawman analogy would be to sell fake heroin that looks exactly like heroin but does nothing at all. This analogy is more exact because the resource you are wasting its the same: money (not lives as in yours)
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Re:Another Ransomware Outbreak Is Going Global by rickycook on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @10:23PM (#14651280)
except that getting malware isn't addictive...
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Re:Another Ransomware Outbreak Is Going Global by dzhiurgis on Wednesday June 28, 2017 @04:30AM (#14652554)
Your information is tho
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