I am pretty confident I have at least one example of this occurring, but it's all (probably) hearsay. :P<p>Which, in hindsight, is pretty terrifying because engaging in an offensive hacking campaign against, i.e. a foreign government, can allegedly qualify you as an unlawful belligerent (read: terrorist) in the eyes of the Geneva Convention.<p>Source: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EObxvIfdKgo" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EObxvIfdKgo</a>
Soon we will need a cyberwarfare equivalent of the Geneva convention and I'm being serious.<p>I will probably get to live long enough to see cyberpunk dystopias happen. They will probably suck.
Maybe it's time to end the charade of pretending that the meatspace tradition of ambient authority works for electronic communications, and come around to accepting that the best form of law on a hostile anonymous network is executable code.