Why the Dogs of Cyberwar Stay Leashed

Why the Dogs of Cyberwar Stay Leashed
Mark Rasch, 2003-03-24

The United States could try out its much-hyped "cyberwarfare" capabilities in Iraq... but it would probably be illegal.

Why the Dogs of Cyberwar Stay Leashed 2003-03-24
Tony Bradley

I wrote a similar article titled Pandora's Box which can be seen at: http://netsecurity.about.com/library/weekly/aa031703a.htm...

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Why the Dogs of Cyberwar Stay Leashed 2003-03-24
Keydet89

I'm not sure I see the point of this article at all. Cyberwar? Against what? It's pretty evident to anyone who's watched the CNN broadcasts for more than a few minutes that the reason the infrastructure is still in place is b/c our President wants it left in place.

So where does that leave us ...

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Why the Dogs of Cyberwar Stay Leashed 2003-03-24
Anonymous

Cyberwarfare violated international law ?

I am sure the US has other reasons for not using cyberwarfare. or maybe they are using it and it remains unknown to us.

But please, keep your theories of "cyberwarfare illegality" to yourself when the whole reason of going to war is being labelled as...

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Why the Dogs of Cyberwar Stay Leashed 2003-03-25
Curtis Karnow (1 replies)

Interesting issues whether it's legal or not to unleash certain types of 'digital' warfare. I am more inclined to think that it is indeed legal under the present circumstances (assuming the war itself is legal). I have written an article on the legalities of counterstrike, which includes a brief di...

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Why the Dogs of Cyberwar Stay Leashed 2003-03-26
Mark Rasch

Whether cyberwar during armed conflict is legal or not will depend, of course, on how it it conducted, what is targeted, and what the effects or what is targeted is on the civillian population. We must make sure that, if we do conduct cyberwar (which I doubt we will in this conflict) that we have d...

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Why the Dogs of Cyberwar Stay Leashed 2003-03-25
Anonymous

Excellent article -- I was wondering about the use (or lack thereof, so far) of such "cyber-war" tactics...very good points as to why they have not been employed yet.
Thank you....

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Military Analysis: The Author is a bit off 2003-03-26
Seth Hidek (2 replies)

I work as both a "cyberwarfare" officer in a reserve US military unit, as well as a consultant for a Big Four Securty Services group. What I write is my own opinion, not the official position of the government or military. In my opinion, this author is off the mark.

In my opinion, a cyberattack ...

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Military Analysis: The Author is a bit off 2003-03-27
Mark Rasch

OMG.. rational, informed, and intelligent responses?? What's going on here? All very good points. As with anything else, the devil is in the details. Cyber war does not per se violate the Law of Armed Conflict, if it is proportional, appropriate and sufficiently limited. Dual use facilities MAY b...

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Sidenote: the Value and Danger of Intelligence 2003-04-02
Drew Copley <dcopley@eeye.com>

The best usage of "cyber" tactics is in intelligence.

I think we often forget the value of information... when we think about the value of information systems.

We consider, "What if these systems were destroyed". Have we forgotten that we would far rather have our own systems destroyed then to...

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Why the Dogs of Cyberwar Stay Leashed 2003-03-26
desitter

Apart from issues of legality of using offensive 'cyberwar' weapons, it is also an issue of strategy. Generally you don't want to destroy (all of) the communication lines of the enemy if you are capable of listening in on the conversation. The point is to precent coordinated surprise attack.

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Why the Dogs of War have been unleashed 2003-03-27
Infiltrator

You people have a lot of nerver talking about 'legal' US warfare. Go ahead and bomb Bagdhad market again - how legal is that? Carpet bobmbings are already taking place - how legal is that?...

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Why we don't like IANA 2003-03-27
Anonymous

> a cyber attack may go after DNS servers

maybe something like the thing that happened to aljazeera.net ? Teaching the "skinnies" the meaning of the word "freedom" ?

Politics aside, the world is not happy with DNS and addr.arpa being controlled by U.S. organizations. The trust has gone. Outsid...

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Why the Dogs of Cyberwar Stay Leashed 2003-03-27
Anonymous

One would assume that a sucessfull attack would not be noticed. Haveing access to others net's would provide some good intel.
nard
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