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Untangling Attribution: Moving to Accountability in Cyberspace

Testimony by Robert K. Knake

July 15, 2010

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Robert K. Knake testifies before the House of Representatives Committee on Science and Technology on the role of attack attribution in preventing cyber attacks and how attribution technologies can affect the anonymity and the privacy of Internet users.

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