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A principle that is discussed is hacking back. It actually almost passed in Georgia, USA. [1] The idea would be that if something was attacking you, you could g

• jstarfish 8y ago
  It almost passed in Georgia because our legislators are idiots. They also almost passed a law criminalizing security research altogether. The problem with allowing open season is that unlike the wild west, outlaws did not literally hijack the bodies of victims to masquerade as someone else before engaging in criminal activity. The "hacker" you're attacking is usually another victim of the operator serving as a proxy. Attribution in the cybersecurity space is very difficult and prone to error. You'd just be institutionalizing lynch mobs.