You are probably familiar with the public lists of sex offenders available online for everyone’s eyes. These posterboards of shame serve as a powerful deterrence to committing rape and molestation. Shame is menacing enough to curb a criminal’s actions.
The web community is adopting a similar technique to fight hackers. A team called the Web Honeynet Project has set up a web honeypot that tracks the hackers’ IP information and more. And this private information will be exposed for everyone on the web to see.
A team of benevolent hackers should target the gathered list of offenders and strike back. A cyber police task force sounds good to me. But would it be ethical for us to stoop down to the level of the malicious hackers and use their own dirty techniques against them?
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