21 August 2011

SOMEONE ELSE'S WINDOWS: IHL and cyberwarfare | #ICRC #hackers #conflict

An interview early this week with Cordula Droege, a legal expert at the International Committee of the Red Cross points out interesting concepts of how International Humanitarian Law can be applied in situations where one or more parties engaged in war may employ information technology as a method of warfare. With the ever increasing reliance on IT in almost all aspects of our life, it's no longer farfetched to imagine future wars maximizing the potentials of this technology, hence the need to study its implications in relation to the legal framework of the rules governing armed conflict.

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