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Consider how happy the district attorney will be if the "someone" in your scenario is a federal agent. I eagerly await your entrapment defense argument.
by tantalor 8y ago
Consider how happy the district attorney will be if the "someone" in your scenario is a federal agent.
I eagerly await your entrapment defense argument.
- kevin_thibedeau 8y agoThey were breaking the law by trying to hack my computer with malicious SQL.
- roywiggins 8y agoThe FBI has not been yet been significantly deterred by courts: https://www.wired.com/2016/05/history-fbis-hacking/ https://www.wired.com/2016/05/history-fbis-hacking/ If they have a search warrant for your server and you hack back, you're liable to have a bad time.
- bigiain 8y agoI guess there some interesting technicalities in the phrase "your server" there. You might _think_ that ec2 instance is "your server", but the FBI are unlikely to serve you with that warrant. I'd guess it'll go to Amazon, who may or may not care about whether you even know of its existence. (Especially if the warrant is for someone else with a VPS on the same piece of hardware that "your server" is on...)
- meowface 8y agoYou can say someone stole your bike so you broke into their house to steal it back, but it doesn't negate that you also committed a crime. I think law enforcement would probably be pretty unlikely to bother charging someone popping a few cybercriminals who stumbled across their honeypot, but they could charge you if they want to.