{"id":66573,"date":"2022-11-15T13:04:01","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T13:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=66573"},"modified":"2022-11-15T13:04:01","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T13:04:01","slug":"troyhunt-governments-should-be-banned-from-making-ransomware-payments-but-companies-no-thats-a-business-decision-pure-simple-you-might-better-ask-should-there-be-a-government-ban-on-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=66573","title":{"rendered":"@troyhunt *Governments* should be banned from making #ransomware payments But *companies*? No That&#8217;s a business decision, pure &#038; simple You might better ask, &#8220;should there be a government ban on paying kidnapping ransoms to get victims back?&#8221; You should have your answer"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"\" dir=\"ltr\">@troyhunt *Governments* should be banned from making #ransomware payments<\/p>\n<p>But *companies*? No<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a business decision, pure &amp; simple<\/p>\n<p>You might better ask, &#8220;should there be a government ban on paying kidnapping ransoms to get victims back?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You should have your answer<\/p>\n<p>  &mdash; Warren Myers \ud83d\udc27\ud83d\udc3f (@warrenmyers)<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/warrenmyers\/status\/1592502989474127873\">Nov 15, 2022<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>\nfrom Twitter https:\/\/twitter.com\/warrenmyers<\/p>\n<p>November 15, 2022 at 08:01AM<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"https:\/\/ifttt.com\/?ref=da&#038;site=wordpress\">IFTTT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>@troyhunt *Governments* should be banned from making #ransomware payments But *companies*? No That&#8217;s a business decision, pure &amp; simple You might better ask, &#8220;should there be a government ban on paying kidnapping ransoms to get victims back?&#8221; You should have your answer &mdash; Warren Myers \ud83d\udc27\ud83d\udc3f (@warrenmyers) Nov 15, 2022 from Twitter https:\/\/twitter.com\/warrenmyers November 15, &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=66573\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">@troyhunt *Governments* should be banned from making #ransomware payments But *companies*? No That&#8217;s a business decision, pure &#038; simple You might better ask, &#8220;should there be a government ban on paying kidnapping ransoms to get victims back?&#8221; You should have your answer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[792],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-66573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blih","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66574,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66573\/revisions\/66574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66573"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=66573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}