Cyber Letters of Marque

[Caute_cautim]

Hi All

Do you agree with this approach, whereby letters of Margue are provided, so one can hack back at the attackers themselves?  What re-precussions would you expect?  What safeguards would you put in place?

https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2019/october/grant-cyber-letters-marque-manage-hack-backs

Regards

Caute_Cautim

[Steve-Wilme]

Dangerous idea.  This suggests correct attribution has been arrived at for cyber attacks.  Since attacks may come from a compromised third party and may be cloud hosted infrastructure subscribed to by that third party, hacking back is frought with difficulties.

[Caute_cautim]

@Steve-Wilme    I agree, hence my request for comments - if they use proxies, they could be state owned proxies sanctioned through a number of different channels, all pointing in the wrong direction.

Regards

Caute_cautim