Hacking back: Optimal use of self-defense in cyberspace

• Main Authors: Majuca, Ruperto P., Kesan, Jay P.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2009
• Subjects: Hacking; Computer security—Law and legislation; Computer Law
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/7981
• Institution: De La Salle University

Should the law permit hackback? How should the law on self-defense in cyberspace be designed? In this paper, we use game-theoretic analysis to develop criteria that determine whether police enforcement, litigation, or hackback is best, and under what circumstances. Our model suggests that the law sh...