lukestein’s Twitter Archive—№ 4,193

Today in probably-unsustainable-as-equilibrium-behavior principal-agent news: Companies pretend to recover data locked by ransomware, but secretly just pay the hackers and mark up the cost to the victims [h/t Bruce Schneier] propublica.org/article/sting-catches-another-ransomware-firm-red-mosquito-negotiating-with-hackers