This story provides a good counterpoint. What if doing so saves lives at a hospital who needs to get back online ASAP? A "saves lives" loophole?
Not to mention every law should first be measured on whether it is at all practical to meaningfully enforce. I guarantee there has been 100x more companies who've paid the ransom and didn't release a press release like this one did.
If a whole bunch of people are going to do it anyway quietly and the law isn't going to stop them, we're just going to occasionally double up the fines on the random businesses that get caught. While these endless ransomware hackings continue.
I'd much rather we spent public resources on prevention.
Not to mention every law should first be measured on whether it is at all practical to meaningfully enforce. I guarantee there has been 100x more companies who've paid the ransom and didn't release a press release like this one did.
If a whole bunch of people are going to do it anyway quietly and the law isn't going to stop them, we're just going to occasionally double up the fines on the random businesses that get caught. While these endless ransomware hackings continue.
I'd much rather we spent public resources on prevention.