US Congress mulls first 'hack back' revenge law. And yup, you can guess what it'll let people do

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: Richard Forno <rforno () infowarrior org>
> Date: October 14, 2017 at 6:27:44 PM EDT
> To: Infowarrior List <infowarrior () attrition org>
> Cc: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
> Subject: US Congress mulls first 'hack back' revenge law. And yup, you can guess what it'll let people do
>
> US Congress mulls first 'hack back' revenge law. And yup, you can guess what it'll let people do
>
> Can you say 'collateral damage'?
>
> By Iain Thomson in San Francisco 13 Oct 2017 at 22:36
>
> Two members of the US House of Representatives today introduced a law bill that would allow hacking victims to seek 
> revenge and hack the hackers who hacked them.
>
> The Active Cyber Defense Certainty Act (ACDC) [PDF] amends the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act to make limited 
> retaliatory strikes against cyber-miscreants legal in America for the first time. The bill would allow hacked 
> organizations to venture outside their networks to identify an intruder and infiltrate their systems, destroy any 
> data that had been stolen, and deploy "beaconing technology" to trace the physical location of the attacker.
>
> "While it doesn't solve every problem, ACDC brings some light into the dark places where cybercriminals operate," 
> said co-sponsor Representative Tom Graves (R-GA).
>
> "The certainty the bill provides will empower individuals and companies use new defenses against cybercriminals. I 
> also hope it spurs a new generation of tools and methods to level the lopsided cyber battlefield, if not give an edge 
> to cyber defenders. We must continue working toward the day when it's the norm – not the exception – for criminal 
> hackers to be identified and prosecuted."
>
> I never thought of it this way. It's basically the cyber version of being allowed to murder someone for entering your 
> property. https://t.co/vu1TxqQIMK
> — MalwareTech (@MalwareTechBlog) October 13, 2017
>
> Congress has been mulling such laws for a while but many security professionals are worried that such legislation 
> will lead to IT departments and individuals going into full vigilante mode, and causing massive collateral damage. 
> But the bill's sponsors say that safeguards have been built in.
>
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> https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/10/13/us_hack_back_law/



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