HR 4036, the “Hack Back Bill”; Understanding Active & Passive Deterrence and the Escalation of Force Continuum. May 24, 2018
Posted by Chris Mark in Uncategorized.trackback
A post on deterrence theory that is applicable to today’s environment and discussion on guns and school security
I wrote this original post several years ago but it seems to be more relevant now. As CNN reports HR4036…”…formerly called the Active Cyber Defense Certainty (ACDC) Act and informally called the hack-back bill – was introduced as an amendment to the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) last week. Its backers are US Representatives Tom Graves, a Georgia Republican, and Kyrsten Sinema, an Arizona Democrat.”
This is a bill that is sound in theory and terrible in practice. According to the Bill, (named ACDC) it would enable a company to take “..active defensive measures..” to access an attacker’s computer. This is only applicable in the US…Think about this for a minute. What is the evidence that I was the attacker of company A? Maybe (quite possibly…almost certainly) a hackers is using my system as a proxy. So some company can now attack my personal computer? What happened to “due…
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