Hacking Back

There’s a really interesting paper from George Washington University on hacking back: “Into the Gray Zone: The Private Sector and Active Defense against Cyber Threats.”

I’ve never been a fan of hacking back. There’s a reason we no longer issue letters of marque or allow private entities to commit crimes, and hacking back is a form a vigilante justice. But the paper makes a lot of good points.

Here are three older papers on the topic.

Tags: academic papers, cyberattack, hackback, hacking

Posted on February 13, 2017 at 6:40 AM • 31 Comments