It should be illegal to pay a ransom to cyber criminals, every time it happens you’re increasing the incentives for these activities and you’re making it more likely to happen again in the future. If it’s illegal, these groups would feel less attracted to attack companies, because they know they wouldn’t be compensated for it.
Seems obvious to me too, but then again, if we went with coordinating for the obvious common good there wouldn't be a casino industry to extort in the first place.
You're right that the biggies wouldn't really have that option. I'm sure they're not the only ones that get hit by such attacks, though. Smaller and non-public companies would have to think about it.
I'm not even arguing for a specific policy, but I didn't like how the framing of the post was about being "stupid" enough to break the proposed law. It wouldn't be that simple.
