{"id":664,"date":"2013-11-06T17:07:12","date_gmt":"2013-11-06T17:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/?p=664"},"modified":"2013-11-06T17:07:12","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T17:07:12","slug":"malicious-ransomware-can-hold-computer-files-hostage-scientific-american-5-november-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/2013\/11\/06\/malicious-ransomware-can-hold-computer-files-hostage-scientific-american-5-november-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Malicious \u201cRansomware\u201d Can Hold Computer Files Hostage: Scientific American, 5 November 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Security experts acknowledge that not paying isn\u2019t feasible for everyone, however. \u201cThe exact same argument is made for kidnapping\u2014never give ransom money, it just encourages them,\u201d says Bruce Schneier, a cryptographer and fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. \u201cAnd that argument makes a whole lot of sense until it is your child. When it is your data, you will pay if it is worth it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article.cfm?id=ransom-malware&amp;utm_source=News%40Law+subscribers&amp;utm_campaign=fce8b33d4d-News_Law_Wednesday_November_6_2013_11_6_2013&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_856982f9c6-fce8b33d4d-259577617\">Malicious \u201cRansomware\u201d Can Hold Computer Files Hostage: Scientific American<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Security experts acknowledge that not paying isn\u2019t feasible for everyone, however. \u201cThe exact same argument is made for kidnapping\u2014never give ransom money, it just encourages them,\u201d says Bruce Schneier, a cryptographer and fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/2013\/11\/06\/malicious-ransomware-can-hold-computer-files-hostage-scientific-american-5-november-2013\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1681,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1681"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":665,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664\/revisions\/665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}