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0 pointsuser-the-name4y ago0 comments

If the victim has no way to pay the ransom, there will be no point in trying to blackmail them.

If you ban paying ransoms, desperate people will just do it in secret, something bitcoin works hard to enable.

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For large companies "paying in secret" is pretty difficult given public accounts. The typical CFO would rather get a new job elsewhere rather than risk prison because his CTO colleague did a poor job securing the IT. They just work there.

A ban on ransomware payment also has the nice side effect of banning ransomware insurance, which has been making the problem worse so far.

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0 pointsuser-the-name4y ago0 comments

If the victim has no way to pay the ransom, there will be no point in trying to blackmail them.

If you ban paying ransoms, desperate people will just do it in secret, something bitcoin works hard to enable.

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meltedcapacitor4y ago

A ban on ransomware payment also has the nice side effect of banning ransomware insurance, which has been making the problem worse so far.

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