US city rejects $5.3M ransom demand and restores encrypted files from backup
Why not make it a crime to pay the ransom demand for cryptolocker attacks? This way the flow of money to these gangsters will stop.<p>If you get hit with a cryptolocker and you have no backup you simply lose that data. Or you can pay the ransom, get your data back and go to jail.<p>While this might seem unfair, it might stop 1000 other attacks because there will be no money in it. It would be for the greater good.