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@therecord_media This is good (providing more visibility to the problem), provided that (a) ransom payments are not banned and (b) the government manages to keep the information private.

Unfortunately, I suspect that this is just the first step towards violating (a) and that (b) will fail too, on the presumption that the government is incompetent.