The ethics of zero-day exploits—the NSA meets the trolley car

The work

AuthorsStephen B. Wicker
Editors
Typearticle
Year2021
Also known aswicker2020ethics
Citekeywicker2021ethics

Where it appeared

Published inCommunications of the ACM
Volume64
Issue1
Pages97--103

Identifiers

DOI10.1145/3393670

Settled

Abstractcarried over from `abstract_absent` at the 1.0 migration

A copy is held

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@article{wicker2021ethics,
  title        = {The ethics of zero-day exploits—the NSA meets the trolley car},
  author       = {Stephen B. Wicker},
  year         = {2021},
  journal      = {Communications of the ACM},
  volume       = {64},
  number       = {1},
  pages        = {97--103},
  doi          = {10.1145/3393670},
}

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