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So? If their goal is destruction what does that have to do with ransomware? They can do that whether paying the ransom is legal or not.

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Deception? It can confuse the target about the motives of the attack.

So they were going to destroy data anyway, so this isn’t what outlawing ransom payments is meant prevent because it can’t. It will prevent ransomware for profit if no one pays.

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