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The Right to Defend
Tim Mullen, 2002-07-29

Is it criminal to reach out and hack an infected machine that's attacking your network?

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The Right to Defend 2002-07-29
Matthew Waddell
Machine A looks like it is attacking Machine B.

The Admin of Machine B attacks Machine A to take it offline, in order to "Defend itself."

Machine B loses Internet connectivity because Machine C spoofed traffic (very easy to do) in order to appear to come from Machine B's Primary DNS, or CEO's ...

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