TY - JOUR AU - Mils Hills TI - The Deregulation and Swarming of Cyberwarfare: The Need for and Limitations of Law in Enabling Aggressive ‘Hacking-back’ and Pre-Emption JO - Journal of Law & Cyber Warfare PY - 2014 VL - 3 IS - 1 UR - https://www.jlcw.org/articles/the-deregulation-and-swarming-of-cyberwarfare-the-need-for-and-limitations-of-law-in-enabling-aggressive-hacking-back-and-pre-emption AB - This conceptual article by Dr. Mils Hills examines the legal case for "hacking-back" and pre-emptive cyber counter-strikes by liberal democratic states. Hills argues that such states face a structural disadvantage: adversaries are not bound by the same legal and ethical constraints, yet liberal… ER -