(Legally) Taking Down Hackers?
Noah Shachtman’s Brookings policy paper is chock full of ideas on how to take down the cyberspace baddies. And using the legal system to bring pressure on ISPs seems like a solid idea, until you start thinking about the potential downsides…
First off: Can we agree on what is ‘bad’ behavior?
Second: Do we really know who is being bad?
And there there’s the classic problems of who watches the watchers?
Read the commentary on Wired for more…