Online hacker forum censorship: Would banning the bad guys attract good guys?

• Main Authors: WANG, Qiu-Hong, ZHANG, Le-Ting, QIAO, Meng-Ke
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2017
• Subjects: Internet censorship; Hacker forum; Cyber security; Text mining; Information Security
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/3421; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/4422/viewcontent/OnlineHackerForumCensorship.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

To tackle the ubiquitous cybersecurity threats, a few countries have enacted legislation to criminalize the production, distribution and possession of computer misuse tools. Consequently, online hacker forums, which enable the provision and dissemination of malicious cyber-attack techniques among po...