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.
      • Washedupcynic@lemmy.caEnglish
        4·
        20 hours ago

        They are clearly from the hidden leaf village, probably a member of the Uchiha clan considering their propensity for fire (smoke) based jutsu.

  • markon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    14 hours ago

    This is one thing Mythos Class AI is going to be good for. Don’t pay the hackers. Hack the hackers. And then take their money. This is now a lawless world.

  • Lemmayng@lemmy.worldEnglish
    111·
    17 hours ago

    Yeah, no shit. Trump has shown what happens when you bend ov-I mean, give the bully your lunch money.

  • eicker@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    3111·
    21 hours ago

    Paying a ransom doesn’t buy trust: It buys hope from people who have already proven they’re willing to extort you! If criminals learn that victims pay, asking for a second ransom isn’t a betrayal of the deal. It’s just the next logical business decision. 🤷

    • freely1333@reddthat.comEnglish
      81·
      15 hours ago

      FWIW I had to pay the ransom once and it worked fine they gave the password over and even bargained the price down and also fucked up because crypto fees so didn’t have the ability to send the actual full amount and they were chill.

      Minus the whole being held for ransom they were probably more consumer friendly than the average large corporation.

    • The Velour Fog @lemmy.worldEnglish
      3710·
      20 hours ago

      “It’s not X it’s Y” LLM slop BS.

      Comment history is full of similar chatgpt slop.

      Edit: go ahead and downvote me all you want but mark my words - in 1 to 3 months this account is going to switch to shilling the online marketing strategy consulting website it’s already heavily advertising in its profile. The website is literally promoting marketing bots pretending to be real people to sell you stuff.

      • eicker@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        123·
        5 hours ago

        Unlike you, I always speak openly under my own name. Unlike you, I don’t run an army of sock puppets. Unlike you, I’ve been active on the Web and Fediverse for decades. Unlike you, I’m not a block warden. Go and troll somewhere else. Bye! 👋

        • CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          231·
          19 hours ago

          “I always speak openly under my own name”

          Has generic, anonymous username

          “I’ve been on the fediverse for decades”

          Account is 11 days old and the fediverse hasn’t even existed for a fraction of that time.

  • RobotToaster@mander.xyzEnglish
    9·
    20 hours 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·
      20 hours ago

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

      • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        12 minutes ago

        Two points:

        • Danegeld refers to paying the Vikings not to raid your lands, something that has nothing to do with Colonization
        • Groups of have been invading other groups of people’s land and taking their shit long before Europe had enough technological dominance for it’s nations to do it to other people outside Europe.

        Tribalism and all the shit that comes with it (including the whole “steal from and kill the other tribe for the good of your own tribe”) is way older than “Europe” as a collection of nations and seems to be and inherent human trait.