It means you sit down, you make some fermi estimates of how much benefit the counterparty could be deriving from this threat/blackmail, then you figure out what you would need to do to roughly net out to zero, then you do those things. If someone asks you what your policy is, you give this summary.
In every specific instance this looks different. Sometimes this means you reach out to people they know and let them know about the blackmailing in a way that would damage their reputation. Sometimes it means you threaten to escalate to a legal battle where you are willing to burn resources to make the counterparty come out in the red.
In every specific instance this looks different. Sometimes this means you reach out to people they know and let them know about the blackmailing in a way that would damage their reputation. Sometimes it means you threaten to escalate to a legal battle where you are willing to burn resources to make the counterparty come out in the red.
Why would you condition any of this on how much they’re spending?
And how exactly would you calibrate it to impose a specific amount of cost on the blackmailer? (How do you even map some of these things to monetary cost…?)
It means you sit down, you make some fermi estimates of how much benefit the counterparty could be deriving from this threat/blackmail, then you figure out what you would need to do to roughly net out to zero, then you do those things. If someone asks you what your policy is, you give this summary.
In every specific instance this looks different. Sometimes this means you reach out to people they know and let them know about the blackmailing in a way that would damage their reputation. Sometimes it means you threaten to escalate to a legal battle where you are willing to burn resources to make the counterparty come out in the red.
Why would you condition any of this on how much they’re spending?
And how exactly would you calibrate it to impose a specific amount of cost on the blackmailer? (How do you even map some of these things to monetary cost…?)