[ExI] bitcoin again

[BillK]

On 31 March 2016 at 22:50, spike wrote:
> Cool, so now if a news agency announces that a hospital has been hacked and
> some yahoo demands bitcoin to unlock the files, they figure out she isn’t
> the real hacker, they don’t pay and catch her somehow, could not her defense
> team claim she wasn’t demanding any actual money?  If so, could she be
> convicted of fraudulently… I don’t know where the heck that would land in
> our legal system.
>

Doesn't apply. The hackers are not in the US. If you ever trace some
of them, they are probably in a country that doesn't allow extradition
to US either.

And some may be supported by foreign governments to cause chaos in the US.

BillK