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These incidents require remediation. I am here to stop and thwart these things. I am not here just because I set out to profit on bad behavior.
I can't tell you how many times I want to throttle my clients for poor practices or bad choices. That being said, I am doing this because it's necessary to improve overall practices across the industry.
And you're right, if nobody paid the ransom, it would stop... maybe. But on the same note, if nobody was a greedy asshole, there wouldn't be attacks. If nobody had bad practices, there wouldn't be vectors... If, if, if.
The fact is, all of this is a thing and I do this for a living not because I set out to, but because my skillset and experiences in this industry have caused me to be very good at extracting users from these scenarios.