Welcome to the FUTURE: US cops pay Bitcoin ransom to end office hostage drama
Georgi Guninski
guninski at guninski.com
Sun Apr 19 09:10:23 PDT 2015
On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 05:24:50PM -0400, dan at geer.org wrote:
> It's been shown more than once that total take in an online
> extortion scheme is increased if the demanded price is modest.
> Call it the Laffer Curve of cybercrime...
>
> --dan
I suspect cleaning the mess will be much more expensive
than $300. This appears non-trivial in times of crisis
like this and recent shutdowns.
--
cheers
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