Re: The Need For Speed
Depends on which country you are operating in. Since the miscreants are are encrypting peoples files and then demanding money before they *might* give you the key to decrypt them, under UK law they are committing blackmail (or technically, "demanding money with menaces"). If you set up a brokerage company like you describe, you could end up being charged as an accessory to the blackmail, since you are clearly profiting from the actions of the bad guys even though you are not performing the blackmail yourself.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
