Bots, cops, and corporations: on the limits of enforcement and the promise of polycentric regulation as a way to control large-scale cybercrime

Botnets currently pose the most serious threat to the digital ecosystem, providing an infrastructure that enables bank fraud, distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS), and click fraud. During the past few years, three main approaches have been used to fight botnets. First, police organizations h...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dupont, Benoît (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2017
In: Crime, law and social change
Year: 2017, Volume: 67, Issue: 1, Pages: 97-116
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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Keywords:
Botnets
Cybercrime
Enforcement
Harm Reduction
Polycentric governance
Regulation