FBI Monitoring Hacking Targets For Retaliation

An anonymous reader writes: As high profile security breaches continue to grab headlines, little is being done visibly by the government to prevent future attacks. This is prompting some victims (and potential victims) to find creative ways to stop the hackers. The FBI is now concerned that U.S. companies and institutions are themselves breaking laws by retaliating with cyberattacks of their own. "In February 2013, U.S officials met with bank executives in New York. There, a JPMorgan official proposed that the banks hit back from offshore locations, disabling the servers from which the attacks were being launched ... Federal investigators later discovered that a third party had taken some of the servers involved in the attack offline, according to the people familiar with the situation. Based on that finding, the FBI began investigating whether any U.S. companies violated anti-hacking laws in connection with the strike on those servers, according to people familiar with the probe."

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Re:Can shoot a person, can't take down a server

[kelemvor4]

The right to bear arms doesn't give you the right to actually use those arms. Just having the right to carry a gun doesn't implicitly give you the right to commit a murder (whether in self defence or not).

It does if the murdered is black. Just ask any police department in the country!