evanprodromou

Hypothetical scenario: let's say you and a competitor are neck-and-neck in a really tough market. Say, you're Gowalla.com and they're Foursquare. You're Wesabe, they're Mint.

You think this is a billion-dollar market. But you're sharing it with this competitor and it's a hard slog.

A hacker group contacts you and offers to harass the rival site -- maybe do a security attack and expose user email addresses and passwords, or maybe just a brutal DDOS that will make the service unreliable.

The group wants $50,000. Would you do it? Why or why not?