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Paying Hacker Extortion
An anonymous reader writes "A friend works as CIO at a medium sized publicly traded company. The company was contacted by a hacking group and told to pay $100,000 to prevent their company from being hacked/attacked. They actually paid the extortion (told authorities after). The authorities said the company could be charged with supporting Terrorists. Seeing that most publicly known hacks are costing companies this size nearly a million dollars, Is this supporting terrorists or supporting stockholders?"
Supporting stockholders IS supporting terrorists!
Seriously though, those authorities are morons. If they are calling this sort of behavior terrorism then there one could just as well say capitalism is terrorism.
It does however make you complicit in terrorism, the terrorism effected by the capitalist system designed to make wealth trickle up. They CEO will always be paid before the stockholder or the worker. Continuing to participate in the system does make us all bad people.
Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so- Zaphod beeblebrox
And is the response to the threat of a 9/11-style attack to be terrified, or concerned?
I said "hi" to someone and accidentally startled them. Does that make me a terrorist?
it makes you a startler.
does asking rhetorical questions make you an idiot?
did you answer yes?
should you have answered yes?
if you answered yes would you have been right?
you're an idiot.