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		adrianN on May 19, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Companies may be punished for paying ransoms to sa... If disgruntled employees were the main actors stealing user data I'd feel a lot better about the state of IT security.

slver on May 19, 2021 [–]

Think carefully if you care how someone stole the data. Or you care more about how likely it is to steal the data. I can argue that penalizing companies for being blackmailed in fact encourages less cooperation with authorities, which encourages more people to blackmail them

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