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Originally Posted by John

Around a year ago I watched an interview of a guy who was part of some FBI task force for investigating high profile / most wanted hackers, or something like that. He said that we will never catch them and the only ones who do get caught are usually because they made some sort of tiny mistake. There's a documentary about the silk road hacker who was basically caught this way, made a little mistake.

I’m going to look for that documentary. I’d like to really see that.

Originally Posted by John

I read something about this a while back. Seems to be that if the hackers get a reputation for not honoring their ransoms then people / companies / governments will probably stop paying future ransoms.

I meant if they continue to do it the same way they’re doing it now. So, honor their ransoms by fixing what they screwed up, after they get ransom money. What I’m saying is why not keep doing what they’re doing repeatedly, keep honoring the ransom, then do it again. It seems like they just get the ransom and stop. Why not keep doing it since it’s very difficult to get caught.