nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20200716-235806-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 200716s2020||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20200716-235806-0 doi eng 342 23 Lahmann, Henning Author aut Hacking Back and International Law: An Irreconcilable Pair? Lahmann, Henning Verfassungsblog 2020-07-16 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Imagine you‘re at the onset of a global pandemic, and one of the nation‘s leading hospitals falls victim to a debilitating cyberattack, crippling its medical infrastructure for days. This is exactly what happened to Brno University Hospital on March 13, then home to one of the largest COVID-19 testing facilities in the Czech Republic. Now imagine further that your national security authorities identify a command and control server through which the attackers execute the malicious cyber operation, which would end immediately if you were to hack “back” into that system to render it inoperative (this part is fiction). Technically, that would be feasible. Alas, you realise that the server is located abroad. Shouldn't you be allowed to go ahead and heroically save the nation? funded by the government CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Cybersecurity Cybersicherheit Hackback Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/hacking-back-and-international-law-an-irreconcilable-pair/ raw object