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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
Anonymous
Under a currently circulating, yet to be fully passed, US Federal law, what you are suggesting (the "hack-back") would be legal *if* you were a patent/copyright/trademark holder and the target was known (provable) to be violating your rights. It's a bad law, It needs to be killed. There are far TOO ...

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