Businesses, under siege from hackers looking to steal sensitive
information, increasingly want to take matters into their own hands. But
the head of the National Security Agency is warning them not to become
hackers themselves.
"Be
very careful about going down that road," Adm. Michael Rogers, the NSA
director, said Tuesday at a cybersecurity event hosted by the U.S.
Chamber of Commerce. "As a nonlawyer, I would tell you, wow, think about
the legal implications of this."
Some
business groups are tired of focusing only on defensive measures as
hackers breach their systems. They want to retaliate and damage the
hackers' computer systems.
Advocates of "hacking back" say that punishing attackers can be an effective tool for a company to protect itself.
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