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So what happens if a hacker hacks company A and uses their server as a jump box to hack company B? Is company B allowed to hack A since their machine was used in an attack?

Or even worse, what if company B is mistaken as to who attacked them? If they "hack back" as advocated, but against the wrong target, are they liable?

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Seems like quite a likely outcome to me also, I imagine most serious attackers understand the concept of covering their tracks and aren't exactly going to be sending packets straight from their home computer without protection.

Just take a look on any of the numerous cybercrime forums at any one time there are hundreds of "VPS"s available for rent which are are just compromised PCs of innocent folk.

It is amusing that while you can easily recognize the attribution problem, you venture that others cannot.

That is why we are here, and the 'other' is not. Hegemony exists.

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