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Re:Colonial Pipeline Paid Hackers Nearly $5M in Ransom by FDSGSG on Thursday May 13, 2021 @08:40PM (#27149293)
>Kidnapping for ransom is basically a dead enterprise in the US because of laws essentially forbidding the paying of ransom.

This is bullshit. US laws do not prohibit ransom payments except to sanctioned and/or designated entities which tend to not operate within the US.

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