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Gernot Heiser: Defend Against Cyber Threats | Gaming the Future Chapter 8

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The Impact of Ransomware on the Market Failure

The effect is indirect in that it makes the attacks too easy so people have to start doing something about it. The adversary doesn't have a working system to recover from the incentives on ransomware quite the opposite. But this only helps if the victim, once they've been attacked and pay off the ransomware and try to recover, react to this by turning to more secure software instead rather than just running the same old insecure crap again.

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