The Dark Age of Online Civil Society
Online civil society is vulnerable to various malicious actors who conduct cyberattacks against individuals, companies, and governments. Victims of these attacks are using strike backs, hack backs, and defensive cyber actions as a means to send a message to the attacker, we are not a victim (...
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Simon Fraser University Library
2021-12-01
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| Series: | The Journal of Intelligence, Conflict and Warfare |
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Online civil society is vulnerable to various malicious actors who conduct cyberattacks against individuals, companies, and governments. Victims of these attacks are using strike backs, hack backs, and defensive cyber actions as a means to send a message to the attacker, we are not a victim (Neal, 2019). My research presents one model of “revenge attacks” whereby the individual defends themselves online without the assistance of government.
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| spelling | doaj.art-28fa82a5fa184454a5ff3d627830ca022023-07-25T17:25:07ZengSimon Fraser University LibraryThe Journal of Intelligence, Conflict and Warfare2561-82292021-12-012310.21810/jicw.v2i3.1184The Dark Age of Online Civil Society Patrick Neal0CASIS-Vancouver Online civil society is vulnerable to various malicious actors who conduct cyberattacks against individuals, companies, and governments. Victims of these attacks are using strike backs, hack backs, and defensive cyber actions as a means to send a message to the attacker, we are not a victim (Neal, 2019). My research presents one model of “revenge attacks” whereby the individual defends themselves online without the assistance of government. https://journals.lib.sfu.ca/index.php/jicw/article/view/1184 |
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