Should Paying Hacker Ransoms Be Illegal?
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The US Government Should Not Pay Ransomware
John Sutter: If you're reading on the internet or listening to government officials, they don't line up. The FBI strongly discourages ever paying ransomware; there's a good reason for that. He says when ransom is paid these days, it's almost always paid in cryptocurrencies because they're hard to trace. Sutter: One big effort of the Biden administration right now is to try to put some transparency into cryptocurrency payments.
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