Law of Armed Conflict To Apply To Cyberwar

Posted by Soulskill on Friday May 8, 2009 @11:14AM from the logic-bombs-vs-smart-bombs dept.

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."

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Re:Oil Barons by Threni · 2009-05-08 11:39 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Is it just me, or is Slashdot confusing your Firefox into displaying the 'live bookmarks' page all the time? This is after Slashdot was down, then slow, for ages today. It's wrong on my IE and Opera 9.5 mobile on windows mobile, as well as Firefox on Ubuntu 9.04.