Cyber War Manual Proposes Online Geneva Convention 90
judgecorp writes "A new manual for cyber war has been compiled by international legal experts and published by NATO. The manual proposes that hospitals and dams should be off-limits for online warfare, and says that a conventional response is justified if an attack causes death or serious damage to property. The manual might get its first practical application today — South Korea's TV stations and banks have come under an attack which may well originate from North Korea."
Re:This just in: Still clueless (Score:3, Funny)
In conventional warfare, attributation is easy: They're wearing distinctive uniforms. Computer viruses and malware doesn't have an embedded flag in it to tell you which government sent it, and even if it did, it couldn't be trusted.
Just require all state-sponsored malware to be signed and verified by the a third party. I can see no reason why such a system would fail.
Re:This just in: Still clueless (Score:5, Funny)
Just require all state-sponsored malware to be signed and verified by the a third party. I can see no reason why such a system would fail.
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