Kidnapping provides a useful service and should be legal. Schools, kindergardens and parents with poor security practices deserve to be punished for their negligence.
Defense has to work every time. Attackers just have to get through once. That's a game that favors the attackers.
Game 2: Every time offence scores, they get $100 of my money. Defense loses nothing.
Neither is fair to defence, but game 2 is unfair to me, and that's what's important.
I just hope no one ever holds you up to the standards you demand of everyone else.
Also, the thing is, our immune system isn't exempt from false-positives. I'm not sure we want a society with as many false-positives.
Also:
Ransomware gangs also target companies that do not have "enormous amounts of user's personal and financial data".
Since too many companies didn't pay ransomware gangs now have taken to stealing data in addition - are you fine with a ransomware gang selling your personal data then, because they are "helping"?
>let's sanction crime against them
If it were legal it wouldn't be a crime.
>Are you sure kindergardens are punished reliably enough for lapses of security?
Given that I rarely hear about children being kidnapped out of kindergartens, I would assume so. I'm not well educated on this, though, since I don't have a personal stake in the matter.
No it's not, but because random data stealing is a lot less lucrative than ransoming.