> Negotiorum gestio (Latin for "management of business") is a form of spontaneous voluntary agency in which an intervenor or intermeddler, the gestor, acts on behalf and for the benefit of a principal (dominus negotii), but without the latter's prior consent. The gestor is only entitled to reimbursement for expenses and not to remuneration, the underlying principle being that negotiorum gestio is intended as an act of generosity and friendship and not to allow the gestor to profit from his intermeddling. This form of intervention is classified as a quasi-contract and found in civil-law jurisdictions and in mixed systems (e.g. Scots, South African, and Philippine laws).
> For example, while you are traveling abroad, a typhoon hits your home town and the roofing of your house is in danger. To avoid the catastrophic situation, your neighbour does something urgently necessary. You are the 'principal' and your neighbour here is the 'gestor', the act of which saved your house is the negotiorum gestio.
I'd be happy to be proven wrong, but I don't think it applies here. Specifically, nothing in this summary indicates that you can break other laws to fulfill this one. IANAL, etc.
The summary gives the example of securing your neighbors roof when a tornado is about to hit. Possible laws to break to do this, are "breaking and entering" or "trespassing".
Note that a lot of these laws state that care must be taken not to break laws unnecessarily. Bricking IOT devices that can be used for DDOS-attacks may be a step too far.
And strictly, in the case of patching a server under negotiorum gestio, you have not broken any laws: It is not unlawful computer intrusion when you have implicit permission of the owner of a device (the same goes for entering your neighbors house when they are on vacation, and have accidentally left a pot of milk to boil on the stove).
But I guess such far-reaching Good Samaritan laws are very foreign to the US, since there, off-duty doctors are sued for performing a painful Heimlich maneuver.
