Not for want of making it legal. The Active Cyber Defense Certainty Act (ACDC) has been proposed to the House of Representatives several times. It would make retaliatory hacking legal under some scheme. It has never made it out of committee.
In US terms, that means one or a small group of Representatives (in this case 18) proposed such a law. It got referred to the subgroup in charge of vetting proposed laws in that specialty area (in this case the subcommittee of Judiciary called the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security). From there, he wasn't able to convince them to even green light it for a full vote in the House of Representatives, let alone going to the Senate or becoming a law.
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Not for want of making it legal. The Active Cyber Defense Certainty Act (ACDC) has been proposed to the House of Representatives several times. It would make retaliatory hacking legal under some scheme. It has never made it out of committee.
In US terms, that means one or a small group of Representatives (in this case 18) proposed such a law. It got referred to the subgroup in charge of vetting proposed laws in that specialty area (in this case the subcommittee of Judiciary called the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security). From there, he wasn't able to convince them to even green light it for a full vote in the House of Representatives, let alone going to the Senate or becoming a law.