If you pay a hacker's ransom, chances are that they'll come back for more | TechCrunch
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The long-held understanding among security researchers and network defenders is that it's impossible to negotiate in good faith with an extortion racket because there's no incentive for the other side to actually walk away.
  • RobotToaster@mander.xyzEnglish
    3·
    1 month ago

    And that is called paying the Dane-geld;

    But we’ve proved it again and again,

    That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld

    You never get rid of the Dane.

    • Sims@lemmy.mlEnglish
      11·
      1 month ago

      I think this particular behavioral disease stayed in Europe, caused Colonization->Britain->US and here we are on the brink of WW3…