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Controls that just weren t in place that should have been there. then the cost here. i mean, when you have to pay the ransom, that s the debate now, right? to pay or not to pay. debate whether it should be illegal to pay up. i remember there was a study by one cybersecurity company, found that over half the ransomware victims pay the ransom, then only one-quarter see their full data returned. so even if you do pay, sounds like there s a good chance you don t get off lightly, it may not be worth it to pay. what s the right call here? right, so it s each individual organization has to make that decision for themselves. obviously as a security person, i recommend never paying the ransom. but it s not always just a security decision. but you re absolutely right. just because you ve paid the ransom doesn t mean your problems are over. your decrypter may not work. you may have to completely rewrite it. even then, even if everything works perfectly, you still have ....
Notice and noticing this as a turning point in their efforts, but there s a lot more that could be done here. i know this is complicated and i know that none of us are policymakers, but does it help when these companies pay the ransom? should congress pass a law to stop them from paying these ransoms? because paying the ransom doesn t seem to be stopping them. right. it is a very complicated question. on the one hand, if everyone stopped paying, this would stop because the incentive for criminal actors to do this, the money they re making would disappear, it wouldn t be there anymore. on the other hand, the fact that this is critical systems, there are business decisions part of this, even, you know, when we were talking about health care, potential loss of human life, high stakes decisions, it s pretty difficult to just draw the sxlin say, no payment. but i agree with what anthony was saying, that if there s more ....
Furloughed, can t do their job, can t deliver important services to citizens across this country. and most of the work around the affordable care act is either paid for by mandatory money, a stream of funding that s already sort of prefunded or they are actually working on specific benefit issues like medicare and medicaid changes as part of this law. so the affordable care act is not shut down because of the government but because of the streams of funding. so the shutdown needs to be over. more importantly we need to make sure that this maneuver of the house republicans to hold the country at ransom doesn t then kick over into the debt ceiling discussion. that would shut down the economy. this shuts down most of the federal government. step two would be to shut down the economy and send us careening toward a recession. that just is a ransom price that ....