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. 🤷

Or increasing the ransom…If they’ll give me a million, they’ll give me 2.

“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.

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! 👋

“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.

I‘ve been on identi.ca back in 2008. What about you? 🤷

Oh yeah, I started on there myself back in 1892 when the server was powered by steam engines.

“Hey ChatGPT, generate me an epic roast of this guy that wouldn’t be out of place if it were in a Neopets forum in 2005. Include a stupid emoji at the end too.”

The hackers might as well start charging a monthly recurring subscription

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.

Lucky you!

Their income is based on trust: that their target trusts them to keep their end of the bargain when paid. Without that trust, there’s no reason to pay them or engage at all other than to try to trap them.

duh

If you give a mouse a cookie…

Hmm suspicous username. Are you a member of the Koga clan?

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

Sounds like the “Gawd Damn Lochness Monster!”

Gimme tree fiddy!

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.

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

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.

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

moo moo milky milky 🐄

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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.

and that’s why governments don’t negotiate with terrorists / hostage-takers - if the attackers achieve what they want that way, you just encourage them to do it more

well mostly they say they don’t negotiate. In reality more often than not, they actually do negotiate in the end. Then they claim it was one time exception (and then do it again next time also).