Online Hacker Forum Censorship: Would Banning the Bad Guys Attract Good Guys?

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dc.contributor.authorWang, Qiu-Hong
dc.contributor.authorZhang, Le-Ting
dc.contributor.authorQiao, Meng-Ke
dc.date.accessioned2016-12-29T02:05:01Z
dc.date.available2016-12-29T02:05:01Z
dc.date.issued2017-01-04
dc.description.abstractTo tackle the ubiquitous cybersecurity threats, a few countries have enacted legislation to criminalize the production, distribution and possession of computer misuse tools. Consequently, online hacker forums, which enable the provision and dissemination of malicious cyber-attack techniques among potential hackers or technology-savvy users, are subject to censorship. This project examines the mixed impacts of online hacker forum censorship on users’ contribution to protection discussion through a natural experiment with large-scale content analysis. We find that while the enforcement indeed reduced the discussion on malicious cyber-attacks, the discussion on cybersecurity protection could increase or decrease in different scenarios. The rationale is that while the online hacker forum censorship imposes risk to the discussion of malicious attacks, it also reduces the potential benefit from discussing protection issues. Policy implications are discussed.
dc.format.extent10 pages
dc.identifier.doi10.24251/HICSS.2017.677
dc.identifier.isbn978-0-9981331-0-2
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10125/41840
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofProceedings of the 50th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectContent Analysis
dc.subjectHackers
dc.subjectInternet Censorship
dc.subjectInformation Security
dc.subjectOnline Forum.
dc.titleOnline Hacker Forum Censorship: Would Banning the Bad Guys Attract Good Guys?
dc.typeConference Paper
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