I thought our guest yesterday, Jonathan Zittrain, led an excellent discussion about cyber security and the intersections of the internet and law.<\/p>\n
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The opening paragraph of \u201cThe Meaning of the Cyber Revolution\u201d offers a quote from \u201cthe chief of U.S. Cyber Command, Gen. Keith Alexander” who notes that “there is no consensus \u2018on how to characterize the strategic instability\u2019 of cyber interactions \u2018or on what to do about it.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
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I wanted to bring up two points about this quote \u2013 first, I am curious about the structure of our \u201cU.S. Cyber Command.\u201d It seems that military officials run this operation, but is such an operation best suited to be run under the umbrella of the Department of Defense\/Military? (The ARPANET itself started out under the DoD and essentially became privatized later on, so it would be interesting if this trajectory also happens when thinking about cyber defense.)<\/p>\n
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Second, and following from that initial question: are we allowed to treat cyber-warfare as analogous to actual combat warfare? The Tallinn Manual does set out some solid guidelines for us to think about. However, if not all countries and leaders are bound to abide by the Manual\u2019s rules, how can a country be incentivized to work within these boundaries when thinking about how they will combat cyber warfare? Cyber war seems to be a relatively emerging field of warfare (compared with our more conventional notions of combat), so I\u2019d be curious if creating a Manual of this type could be seen as perhaps premature, as the cyber warfare field seems to be constantly updating (perhaps at a far faster rate than we are creating new non-cyber weapons for soldiers\/our armies.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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