The dark side of banning hacking technique discussion

• Main Authors: WANG, Qiu-Hong, LE, Ting Zhang
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2017
• Subjects: Information Security; Hacker Forum; Criminalization; Protection; Content Contribution; Databases and Information Systems; Management Information Systems
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/3767; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/4769/viewcontent/CSWIM_2017_proceedings_Final_.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

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