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The Fight for Cyber Thoreau: Distinguishing Virtual Disobedience from Digital Destruction

The Fight for Cyber Thoreau: Distinguishing Virtual Disobedience from Digital Destruction

Matthew D. Crosston
Copyright: © 2017 |Pages: 22
ISBN13: 9781522519386|ISBN10: 1522519386|EISBN13: 9781522519393
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-1938-6.ch009
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Crosston, Matthew D. "The Fight for Cyber Thoreau: Distinguishing Virtual Disobedience from Digital Destruction." Threat Mitigation and Detection of Cyber Warfare and Terrorism Activities, edited by Maximiliano E. Korstanje, IGI Global, 2017, pp. 198-219. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-1938-6.ch009

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Crosston, M. D. (2017). The Fight for Cyber Thoreau: Distinguishing Virtual Disobedience from Digital Destruction. In M. Korstanje (Ed.), Threat Mitigation and Detection of Cyber Warfare and Terrorism Activities (pp. 198-219). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-1938-6.ch009

Chicago

Crosston, Matthew D. "The Fight for Cyber Thoreau: Distinguishing Virtual Disobedience from Digital Destruction." In Threat Mitigation and Detection of Cyber Warfare and Terrorism Activities, edited by Maximiliano E. Korstanje, 198-219. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2017. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-1938-6.ch009

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Abstract

This analysis sheds light on where cyber disobedience fits in to larger society positively and does not deserve to be summarily thrown in with all types of illegal cyber acts. Making these legal delineations does not solve all of the problems a state will face in the new cyber age. But they will go a long way in helping a democratic state honor its foundation of civil liberties and freedom and avoid becoming a perpetuator of virtual hyperbole and digital panic. In so doing, it guarantees the people greater freedom for themselves while also having greater confidence in the fairness of their own government. This, in place of the chaotic, ambiguous, and uninformed legal and political environment governing cyber action today, would be a dramatic improvement.

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