Proposed Active-Defense Bill Would Allow Destruction of Data, Use of Beacon Tech (onthewire.io)

Trailrunner7 quotes a report from On the Wire: A bill that would allow victims of cybercrime to use active defense techniques to stop attacks and identify attackers has been amended to require victims to notify the FBI of their actions and also add an exemption to allow victims to destroy their data once they locate it on an attacker's machine. The Active Cyber Defense Certainty Act, drafted by Rep. Tom Graves (R-Ga.) in March, is designed to enable people who have been targets of cybercrime to employ certain specific techniques to trace the attack and identify the attacker. The bill defines active cyber defense as "any measure -- (I) undertaken by, or at the direction of, a victim"; and "(II) consisting of accessing without authorization the computer of the attacker to the victim" own network to gather information in order to establish attribution of criminal activity to share with law enforcement or to disrupt continued unauthorized activity against the victim's own network." After releasing an initial draft of the bill in March, Rep. Tom Graves held a public event in Georgia to collect feedback on the legislation. Based on that event and other feedback, Graves made several changes to the bill, including the addition of the notification of law enforcement and an exception in the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act for victims who use so-called beaconing technology to identify an attacker. "The provisions of this section shall not apply with respect to the use of attributional technology in regard to a defender who uses a program, code, or command for attributional purposes that beacons or returns locational or attributional data in response to a cyber intrusion in order to identify the source of the intrusion," the bill says.

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Mr. FBI Agent sir,

[WolfgangVL]

I was just "destroying my hacked data"

Facebook had hacked my browsing data...
The FCC was hosting my stolen data...
The "agencies" had hacked my communication devices....
Linkedin...
Tumbler...
Myspace...
IRS...

Hmmmm

[JThundley]

So I have to tell the FBI that I'm going to hack the NSA to destroy my data?

Re:Blinking Midnight

[bobbied]

"Siri, find and destroy all my hacked data!". thank you.

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