Interesting. Highly defensible, I’m sure, both legally and ethically. But also a pretty strong action for an almost entirely disinterested third party to take with other people’s files.
Especially since blocking the e-mail does nothing to block the payment channel, and it’s pretty unlikely that 100% of the infected who’d have been willing to pay will see this random company’s tweet. So I suppose there’ll be at least a few people who send their money into a void because of this.
#firstworldcorporateethicaldilemmas, I guess.
