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Law of Armed Conflict To Apply To Cyberwar
charter6 writes "Gen. Kevin Chilton, the head of STRATCOM, just declared that the Law of Armed Conflict will apply to cyberwar, and that the US won't rule out conventional (read: kinetic) responses to cyber-attacks. This means that we consider state-supported 'hackers' to be subject to the Geneva Conventions and Customary International Law, including the rules of proportionality and distinction (i.e. if we catch them, we can try them for war crimes). Incidentally, it also means we consider non-state cyber-attackers to be illegal enemy combatants, which means we can do all kinds of nasty stuff to them."
Card-carrying Linux user here. I am not vulnerable. It's the "environment" that has become a trashed-out hell. Every machine from government, business of all sizes to your next door neighbor's are the ones being exploited. To put it another way, you can keep your house painted and your lawn delicately landscaped all you want, but that won't save your property value when you've got gang members, white trash, an over-populated house of hispanics and a black woman with 6 kids from 8 different child-support paying fathers living close by.
HaX0rz, when you p0wn a computer, you cannot have sex with it. Even if it's got a pretty custom case.
Fascism trolls keeping me up every night. When I starts a preachin', he HITS ME WITH HIS REICH!
The US of A went from being total warmongering fucking idiots
to totally insane warmongering fucking idiots.
Shoo...
The Change is working already!
Am I to understand that using a computer can now get you bombed?
From what I understand, these machines only have control of things that can affect money.
why is money more important than human life?
What's to stop our government from suspending habeus corpus just because a hacker isn't wearing a uniform?
declaring them enemy combatants for doing nothing more than typing on a keyboard?
hacking is either about money or principle. Never war. No one hacks to cause bodily damage to others.
Since ALL of our money is in the form of bits, one can simply undo any transaction at any time.
Any computer systems that control things like the electrical grid shouldn't have access internet access at all.
When you think about it, its the unintelligent waging war on the intelligent simply because it's the only thing they know how to do.
If we really wanted to end the cyber-war, we would destroy their computers, not their bodies.
They're using their grammar skills there.