Let’s Talk About the Latest Godawful Cybersecurity Plan

By 2020, some major companies will shovel billions of dollars into developing more comprehensive forms of security according to the International Data Corporation, and policy-makers are following closely, proposing new legislation and regulations to accompany them. One of the latest is the newly repurposed Active Cyber Defense Certainty (ACDC) Act, also called the hack-back bill. … [where] Victims are encouraged to literally “hack back” against their aggressors. … it makes many experts uneasy. … Justin Cappos, a computer science professor and director of the Secure Systems Lab at New York University [Tandon School of Engineering said,] “In some cases this may be an appropriate response to actions, but in this case I think it’s misguided.”… “I think that this might be taking that idea to a very dangerous place.”