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Re:US travel firm $4.5M ransom negotiation open chat by benlumen on Monday August 03, 2020 @07:24AM (#24036368)
My thoughts, also. It's obvious why they don't, but ideally, every business would take a "we don't negotiate with terrorists" stance on this.

Could governments outlaw these ransom payments?

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Re:US travel firm $4.5M ransom negotiation open chat by wendyshu on Monday August 03, 2020 @09:26AM (#24037457)
Seems like there's a great case to make it illegal, I wonder why it's not.
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Re:US travel firm $4.5M ransom negotiation open chat by coryfklein on Monday August 03, 2020 @10:22AM (#24038093)
You would need a way to legislate this globally. Outlawing it here in the US only intensifies the prisoner dilemma aspect of this - the criminal enterprises keep winning the remaining 85% of world GDP, while all US companies suffer the most from the ransomware.

You'd likely still see US companies pay the ransom anyway, but just try to keep it secret. Probably less risky than losing their crucial data and systems.

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