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We need laws preventing companies from paying these ransoms. That is one of the best ways to stop these attacks... Remove the motivation.



Laws don't remove the motivation, they just create an incentive to do the opposite. That's fine if you just want a company to fear punishment, but you quickly get to the point where compliance is an expensive exercise in finding loopholes.




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