Citizen co-production of cyber security: Self-help, vigilantes, and cybercrime

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Chang, Lennon Y. C.; Zhong, Lena Y.; Grabosky, Peter N.
• 署名单位: Monash University; City University of Hong Kong; Australian National University
• 刊物名称: REGULATION & GOVERNANCE
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1748-5983
• DOI: 10.1111/rego.12125
• 发表日期: 2018
• 页码: 101-114
• 关键词: law-enforcement process; involvement; legitimacy; privacy; crime

摘要

Given the limited resources and capabilities of states to maintain cyber security, a variety of co-production efforts have been made by individuals or by collectives, of varying degrees of organization and coordination. This article identifies different forms of citizen co-production of cyber security and notes the risk of unintended consequences. Safeguards and principles are proposed in order to facilitate constructive citizen/netizen co-production of cyber security. Although co-production of security can contribute to social control, only those activities within the bounds of the law should be encouraged. Activities of private citizens/netizens that test the limits of legality should be closely circumscribed.