Every so often a new technology emerges that puts into question existing definitions of behavior. In international relations, this often happens as a result of new weapons being introduced that substantively affect the conduct of war. The advent of strategic air power gave great powers a new tool for coercion, namely the capability to inflict massive amounts of damage on the civilian population in the hopes of forcing political change—mainly surrender. Though strategic air power did not invent the notion of targeting civilians, a combination of accident and obsession with its hypothetical utility led strategic air power to substantively . . .
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Is a volunteer force of cyberwarriors the best available solution for a strong national cyberdefense? That is one of the questions raised at this year’s International Conference on Cyber Conflict (ICCC) in Tallinn, Estonia. The idea behind a volunteer force is that because most states do not have the resources to have a standing cyberforce capable of stopping large-scale attacks, states can rely on a large militia of volunteers in case of emergency. These volunteers would keep their day job, but should a large attack take place they could “take to arms” and protect private and government networks. It . . . It has been well-known for a while that China is prodding and poking at U.S. computer networks looking for sensitive information. Some of the most serious security breaches in U.S. government agencies and private companies over the past few years originated in China, but because of the unique characteristics of cyberspace it has been difficult to attribute these incursions to specific groups or individuals. In other words, we have not known if the incursions came from some Chinese teenage hacker or a government official working on orders from the higher-ups. That seems to have changed, according to U.S. State . . . |
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