Is the UN Cyber-crime Treaty a Good Thing?

You would think yes. An international treaty to combat cyber-crime getting the signatory countries to pull together to combat cross border malicious cyber activity. But then the politicians and the special interest groups got involved and now it could end up being a completely different tool.

See what Amy Hogan-Burney, Associate General Counsel, Cybersecurity Policy & Protection at Microsoft, has to say about the treaty, which could end up criminalising ethical hacking and positive cyber security to the benefit of the cyber criminals and authoritarian states it was designed to thwart.

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