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NANOG Meeting Presentation Abstract

Beyond the Range of the Moment: Ethical Response to Cybercrime
Meeting: NANOG63
Date / Time: 2015-02-03 2:30pm - 3:15pm
Room: Salon I
Presenters: Speakers:

David Dittrich, University of Washington

Dave Dittrich is an Affiliated Research Scientist with the Office of the Chief Information Security Officer at the University of Washington. He has been involved in investigating and countering computer crimes going back to the late-1990s. Dave was the first person to describe the technical details of DDoS attack tools in 1999, was an early researcher into bots and botnets, and one of the first to study P2P for botnet command and control. Dave has pushed the limits, but he tries to do it in a way that is ethically defensible. He has written extensively on ethics and the "Active Response Continuum," serves on one of the UW's Institutional Review Boards evaluating human subjects research, and he and Erin Kenneally recently co-authored the Department of Homeland Security document, "The Menlo Report: Ethical Principles Guiding Information and Communication Technology Research."

Katherine Carpenter

Katherine Carpenter (JD, MA) is a consultant currently researching ways to improve the ethics behind computer security research. She has previously worked in bioethics and health; her graduate education focused in international relations, international law, technology and privacy. She has worked for the City of Seattle, the Seattle Children’s Hospital, the Colorado Children’s Hospital, and the World Health Organization. As a member of an Institutional Review Board at the University of Washington she reviewed both socio-behavioral and biomedical studies to improve ethics and study design. Katherine earned her Juris Doctor from the University of Denver's Sturm College of Law and her Masters from University of Denver's Josef Korbel School for International Studies. She earned her bachelor's degree from Columbia University.
Abstract: Botnet takedowns are occurring more frequently as time goes on. Some are done in conjunction with criminal or civil legal action, but many more are done by private sector actors using only technical means. Most are viewed as failures in one way or another, regardless of the actual goals of the action in the first place. More and more, aggressive responses come with some manner of collateral damage. This talk covers some of the issues regarding these takedowns and seeks feedback from the NANOG membership about how the service provider stakeholder population (and their customer base) can best be represented in these takedowns.
Files: pdfBeyond the Range of the Moment: Ethical Response to Cybercrime(PDF)
youtubeBeyond the Range of the Moment: Ethical Response to Cybercrime
Sponsors: None.

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