Criminalising Anti-Social Behaviour

Social Laws and Anti-Social Behaviour

We extend our work that uses atl to reason about social laws. In a system with social laws, every agent is supposed to refrain from performing certain forbidden actions. Rather than assuming that all agents abide to the law, we reason about what happens if certain agents do, i.e., they act socially, while others don’t. In particular, we are interested in the strategic abilities, under such mixe...

Criminalising hacking tools

Making the sale, possession and distribution of the tools of hacking a criminal offence has obvious attractions. But many such tools are dual use and new laws run the risk of significantly inhibiting the activities of investigators, incident responders, penetration testers and academics. Recent UK attempts at framing such a law are discussed in order to show the broader problems of policy and w...

Lost in Translation: Interpreting and Implementing Anti-Social Behaviour Policies

Complexities in Criminalising Denial of Service Attacks

A Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack on the Internet occurs when a deliberate attempt is made to stop a computer from performing its usual activities by having another computer create large amounts of specious traffic to it. The traffic may be valid requests made in an overwhelming volume or specially crafted protocol fragments that cause the serving machine to tie up significant resources to no us...

Emotionality and Social Behaviour

The trait Emotional Intelligence (trait E.I.) construct shifted the interest in personality research to the investigation of the effect of global personality characteristics on behaviour. In this article the role of personality traits in the occurrence of emotional and behavioural strengths and difficulties was investigated. Five hundred fifty-nine students aged 12-14 years, completed The Trait...