DarkSide ransomware gang quits after servers, Bitcoin stash seized

Re:DarkSide ransomware gang quits after servers, Bitcoin sta... by vkou on Friday May 14, 2021 @02:29PM (#27157957)

There's also a well-known phenomena of large nations harboring multi-national corporations that break the law in other nations they operate in.

That doesn't mean that the large, developed nations in question are engaging in organized crime.

Taking advantage of regulatory arbitrage does not mean that their government is in collusion with them.

If it did, then we could pile a lot of crimes at the feet of Western governments. Some mining firm violently puts down a strike in Central America? Clearly, we can conclude that Canada/the US is engaging in terrorism! [1]

[1] https://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?... [2]

[2] 28 Canadian companies, 44 deaths, 30 of which were targeted extra-judicial killings. Are we going to lay those at the feet of Parliament, too? [3]

[3] Or do we have one set of standards for Russia, and another for our own behaviour?

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Re:DarkSide ransomware gang quits after servers, Bitcoin sta... by waihtis on Friday May 14, 2021 @03:10PM (#27158478)

There is no sense to your comparison when you’re putting a criminal enterprise (which exists to do harm and harm only) and legitimate business into the same bucket.

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Re:DarkSide ransomware gang quits after servers, Bitcoin sta... by vkou on Friday May 14, 2021 @03:19PM (#27158579)

A 'legitimate business' that occasionally dabbles in murder is also a criminal enterprise.

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Re:DarkSide ransomware gang quits after servers, Bitcoin sta... by waihtis on Friday May 14, 2021 @03:23PM (#27158638)

Agree to a certain extent - executives in such companies need to pay the price on their actions, whether involed directly or via a proxy

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