Matt Levine, Columnist

Ransomware and Direct Listings

Also x-accounts, proliferating indexes, and more worrying about the lack of worrying.

May 15, 2017 at 1:30 PM UTC

Matt Levine is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. A former investment banker at Goldman Sachs, he was a mergers and acquisitions lawyer at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz; a clerk for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit; and an editor of Dealbreaker.

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The cyber.

There is some chance that when you showed up to work this morning your computer was encrypted and demanded a $300 ransom to be decrypted, raising the fundamental question: Would you pay $300 to do your work? I assume that a lot of office workers looked at the ransom screen, chuckled "you win this round computer," and headed right back out the door. But, right, a lot of cyberattacks: