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Re:Colonial Pipeline Paid Hackers Nearly $5M in Ransom by paulpauper on Thursday May 13, 2021 @12:38PM (#27144218)
it should be illegal if the government wants to help recoup the losses.

If a have a firm that makes $100,000,000 a year in net-profit , paying a $5 ransomware is a cost of doing business, an unfortunate one nonetheless

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Re:Colonial Pipeline Paid Hackers Nearly $5M in Ransom by TheCoelacanth on Thursday May 13, 2021 @05:55PM (#27147991)
It incentivizes more crime and should be illegal.

Businesses don't have a right to do whatever they want just because it is profitable.

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