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The Ethics of Tracing Hacker Attacks Through the Machines of Innocent Persons

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Publisher Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe
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Topics Network Security, Anti-Hacking, Security Management Date added 01 Nov 2004
Downloads 54 Format 233.0KB PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5

Victims of hacker attacks are increasingly responding with a variety of "active defense" measures, including "invasive tracebacks" that are intended to identify the parties responsible for the attack by tracing its path back to its original source. The use of invasive tracebacks raise ethical issues because, in most cases, they involve trespassing upon the machines of innocent owners. Sophisticated hackers attempt to conceal their identities by routing their attacks through layers of innocent agent machines and networks that are compromised without the knowledge of the owners.

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