Untangling Attribution

By David D. Clark* and Susan Landau** — Click here to read the full text of the Essay As a result of increasing Internet insecurity — DDoS attacks, spam, cybercrime, and data theft — there have been calls for an Internet architecture that would link people to...
Untangling Attribution

Untangling Attribution

David D. Clark and Susan Landau consider how cyberexploitations and cyberattacks might be traced by linking people to packets and conclude that such a linkage would be a mistake. They discuss how other technical contributions to cyber attribution can only be contemplated in the larger regulatory context of various legal jurisdictions.