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Re:US city rejects $5.3M ransom demand and restores encrypte... by PhasmaFelis on Thursday September 05, 2019 @10:16PM (#20892466)
> By the way, another other dark side of making paying ransoms legal is that transferring money to a terrorist group (just because they support it) now has a plausible deniability: "Don't blame me! It was just a ransom!"

Only if you assume that federal law enforcement agencies are a bunch of rule-following robots incapable of rational deduction.

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Re:US city rejects $5.3M ransom demand and restores encrypte... by mattigames on Friday September 06, 2019 @03:03PM (#20898741)
If you think federal law enforcement isn't plagued by extremely dumb mistakes you are in for a treat: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-05-17/fbi-james-comey-trump...
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Re:US city rejects $5.3M ransom demand and restores encrypte... by PhasmaFelis on Friday September 06, 2019 @03:26PM (#20898988)
No, that's not what I said. I'm saying that the feds are not going to go "Shit, this guy with ties to violent Islamic groups just sent $50,000 to Al Qaida, but he said it was to ransom the files on his PC! Our hands are tied!" That's not how the law works.
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