“So for instance if you run a ransomware business and shut down, like, a marketing agency or a dating app or a cryptocurrency exchange until it pays you a ransom in Bitcoin, that’s great, that’s good money. A crime, sure, but good money. But if you shut down the biggest oil pipeline in the U.S. for days, that’s dangerous, that’s a U.S. national security issue, that gets you too much attention and runs the risk of blowing up your whole business.”
Matt Levine
Matt Levine writes about holding pipelines hostage, and more, at Bloomberg. Read this piece.
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