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Exploring Lawful Hacking As A Possible Answer To The "Going Dark" Debate, Carlos Liguori
Exploring Lawful Hacking As A Possible Answer To The "Going Dark" Debate, Carlos Liguori
Michigan Technology Law Review
The debate on government access to encrypted data, popularly known as the “going dark” debate, has intensified over the years. On the one hand, law enforcement authorities have been pushing for mandatory exceptional access mechanisms on encryption systems in order to enable criminal investigations of both data in transit and at rest. On the other hand, both technical and industry experts argue that this solution compromises the security of encrypted systems and, thus, the privacy of their users. Some claim that other means of investigation could provide the information authorities seek without weakening encryption, with lawful hacking being one of …
Optimal Hackback, Jay P. Kesan, Ruperto Majuca
Optimal Hackback, Jay P. Kesan, Ruperto Majuca
Chicago-Kent Law Review
Professor Jay Kesan from the University of Illinois College of Law, in joint work with Ruperto Majuca of the University of Illinois Department of Economics, argue in favor of legal rules that allow "hacking [data] back" in certain business circumstances. They analyze the strategic interaction between the hacker and the attacked company or individual and conclude that neither total prohibition nor unrestrained permission of hack-back is optimal. Instead, they argue that when other alternatives such as criminal enforcement and litigation are ineffective, self-defense is the best response to cybercrime because there is a high likelihood of correctly attacking the criminal, …