Not all ransomware is made equal. To be clear, we’re not for a moment suggesting that any form of ransomware is technically, ethically, morally or legally acceptable.
After all, ransomware is guilty of unuauthorised access as soon as it reads your files, and of the more serious crime of unauthorised modification as soon as it overwrites them.

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