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Re:U.S. to give ransomware hacks similar priority as terrori... by im3w1l on Friday June 04, 2021 @01:09AM (#27390806)
You have a lot of replies but as far as I can see no one made this point, so let me add yet another reply.

Victim blaming is a framing that makes it sound like it's about moral and ethics. But it's about practicality. There is a causal chain leading to a bad outcome and we simply break the weakest link. Sometimes it's easier to lock up the treasure and sometimes it's easier to lock up all the thieves.

Consider the case of computer security. Locking up all the thieves is super duper hard, because they are located in places like Russia and China that wont cooperate with law enforcement.

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Re:U.S. to give ransomware hacks similar priority as terrori... by bostik on Friday June 04, 2021 @02:02PM (#27396704)
> Locking up all the thieves is super duper hard, because they are located in places like Russia and China that wont cooperate with law enforcement.

Oh, they do. With their local ones. Those thieves can operate with impunity as long as they don't hit their fellow countrymen.

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