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Re:DarkSide ransomware gang quits after servers, Bitcoin sta... by WrtCdEvrydy on Saturday May 15, 2021 @12:49AM (#27162469)
Of course I am... if I'm paying 5 million dollars to someone, I'm a customer.

What level of support do you get for a 5 million dollar AWS budget?

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Re:DarkSide ransomware gang quits after servers, Bitcoin sta... by manigandham on Saturday May 15, 2021 @03:08AM (#27163102)
If someone kidnaps your family member and asks you to pay $5M, do you think you're a customer now?

A customer willingly pays to get value in return. Having your resources stolen (even with the option to choose between data or money) just makes you a victim.

$5M on AWS gets you $5M of services. If they didn't have to actually provide anything then they could have an entire team to talk to you 24hrs a day. But these comparisons are beyond ridiculous and you know it.

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Re:DarkSide ransomware gang quits after servers, Bitcoin sta... by WrtCdEvrydy on Saturday May 15, 2021 @04:57PM (#27168945)
> $5M on AWS gets you $5M of services.

$5M on ransomware may have saved you either $10k or $10M on security before you had to pay out.

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Re:DarkSide ransomware gang quits after servers, Bitcoin sta... by manigandham on Saturday May 15, 2021 @08:10PM (#27170103)
It's impossible to have saved anything when you've been stolen from.
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