The Ethics of Cyberwarfare

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: The Ethics of Cyberwarfare
المؤلفون: Randall R. Dipert
المصدر: Journal of Military Ethics. 9:384-410
بيانات النشر: Informa UK Limited, 2010.
سنة النشر: 2010
مصطلحات موضوعية: Sociology and Political Science, media_common.quotation_subject, Identity (social science), International law, Morality, Philosophy, Cyberwarfare, Harm, Just war theory, Law, Information system, Cyber-attack, Sociology, media_common
الوصف: The paper addresses several issues in the morality of cyberwar and cyberwarfare, defined as one nation's attacks on the governmental or civilian information systems of another nation. It sketches the diverse technical ways in which an attack may occur, including denial-of-service attacks and the insertion of various forms of malware. It argues that existing international law and widely discussed principles of Just War Theory do not straightforwardly apply to cyberwarfare, and many forms of cyberwarfare differ from previous forms of warfare in neither injuring nor killing human beings, nor causing lasting physical damage – but can nevertheless cause serious harm to a nation's vital interests. Another dissimilarity with traditional warfare is in the degree of knowledge of the identity of an attacker (the ‘attribution problem’). The paper argues that cyberwarfare is not amenable to regulation by international pacts and that we can expect long periods of low-level, multilateral cyberwarfare, a Cyber ...
تدمد: 1502-7589
1502-7570
URL الوصول: https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::012a731335bca083640b7d4f5def989f
https://doi.org/10.1080/15027570.2010.536404
رقم الأكسشن: edsair.doi...........012a731335bca083640b7d4f5def989f
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