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Vice or Virtue? Exploring the Dichotomy of an Offensive Security Engineer and Government “Hack Back” Policies

Description: This article uses the virtue (ethics) theory and cyber attribution to argue that there exists a dichotomy among offensive security engineers, one that appreciates organizational security practices, but at the same time violates ethics in how to retaliate against a malicious attacker.
Date: January 7, 2020
Creator: Parrish, James L.; Withers, Kim L.; Smith, James N. & Ellis, Timothy J.
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