After publicly considering paying the hackers who have held city systems hostage for 17 days, Baltimore Mayor Bernard C. "Jack" Young settled on not giving them a dime.

WBAL-TV 11's David Collins talked to experts who said the code is impossible to break. The hackers are demanding 13 Bitcoins (about $100,000) to unlock the system.

Young said that even if the city paid the ransom, there's no guarantee that the city will get all its data back. Instead, officials are revamping city government's entire network infrastructure and using workarounds in the meantime.

The FBI doesn't support paying hackers. Besides offering no guarantee that victims will get their data back, the money emboldens cyber criminals and others who want to become cyber criminals, and might fund other illicit activity.

The city hit a bump in the road on Thursday, when Google temporarily disabled free Gmail accountscreated to allow city business to continue.

Young told Collins he doesn't know how much money the city has lost or has spend trying to fix the problem.