N.J.’S Largest Hospital System Pays Up in Ransomware Attack

Re:N.J.’S Largest Hospital System Pays Up in Ransomware Attack by mcny on Monday December 16, 2019 @11:10PM (#21810467)

I’d be ok with it only if the ceo and the board are the ones going to prison and there’s a minimum mandatory sentence of (at least) one year with no possibility of parole or commutation or anything like that.

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Re:N.J.’S Largest Hospital System Pays Up in Ransomware Attack by mbesto on Monday December 16, 2019 @11:27PM (#21810576)

To what avail? CEOs regularly make much worse decisions that create much more grave externalities (example - oil spills). There's much bigger fish to fry than for-profit hospital systems....

No offense, but this proposal is essentially DOA.

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Re:N.J.’S Largest Hospital System Pays Up in Ransomware Attack by austhrow743 on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @03:41AM (#21811811)

Creating oil spills isn't illegal and can't be if you want to get oil. Different scenarios.

As for size of fish, we don't go "why is theft illegal when there are murderers still roaming around?" We can have both be illegal.

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Re:N.J.’S Largest Hospital System Pays Up in Ransomware Attack by mbesto on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @08:55AM (#21813416)

My point is that we very rarely give criminal sentences to corporate executives in the US. This seems like an odd one to start with.

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Re:N.J.’S Largest Hospital System Pays Up in Ransomware Attack by ikeboy on Monday December 16, 2019 @11:22PM (#21810552)

That just sounds punitive. The goal here is to deter ransoms and ultimately reduce the incentive for ransomware, not to be punitive.

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