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Internet Hack Back: Counter Attacks as SelfDefense or Vigilantism? Page 1Copyright 2002. Published in the Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS) Raleigh NC. USA June 2002. Personal use of this material is permitted. However permission to reprint/republish this material for advertising or promotional purposes or for creating new collective works for resale or redistribution to servers or lists or to reuse any copyrighted component of this work in other works must be obtained from the IEEE. Contact: Manager Copyrights andPermissions / IEEE Service Center / 445 Hoes Lane / P.O. Box 1331 / Piscataway NJ 088551331 USA. Telephone: +Intl. 7325623966.Internet Hack Back: Counter Attacks as SelfDefense or Vigilantism? Vikas Jayawal* William Yurcik** David Doss* *Illinois State University {vrjayasdldoss}@ilstu.edu **University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign yurcik@uiuc.eduAbstract The poor state of security on the Internet calls for more effective ways to protect networked systems from attacks. One solution is to be able to counter attack with offensive capabilities. With attacker information available companies find themselves in a dilemma counter attack for immediate selfdefense retaliate for future deterrence inform the appropriate law enforcement authorities or do nothing. We examine justification for the hack back selfdefense and deterrence arguments in the context ofcurrent technology and legal framework. This paper extends discussion of issues surrounding using offensive capabilities for defensive purposes to the civilian/commercial Internet context beyond information warfare. 1. Introduction Computer systems today are under an inprecedented threat from Internet attacks from hackers.1Attacks can be launched from virtually anywhere in the world and the impact level of attacks are larger. This situation calls for effective ways to protect networked systems from attacks. One example is the number of ...

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