The Dutch government wants automatic permission to target victims of hackers
Contrary to common opinion here I think this is a small thing. The way these things work in the Netherlands, an intelligence agency would currently not intercept any communication from a &quot;stepping stone&quot; hacked by a criminal organisation, because it would be outside the scope of their warrant. That&#x27;s a stupid limitation to have because it&#x27;s very common to perform attacks from other hacked machines and not your own. (And for the bad guy&#x27;s connection to such a server to be encrypted and useless to intercept)<p>What&#x27;s a bit bigger in this thing is that they would be allowed to actively hack into such a machine themselves instead of just intercepting communications. However that has to be proportional with extra emphasis on the rights of the non-target. That practically means they can only do it in severe cases and not to get information on the non-target.<p>Those suggesting this could be used to &quot;just&quot; hack random citizens are exaggerating. That would not be accepted by the oversight agencies.