Guardians of Grail

cheapbag214s · Posted: Thu 3:02, 01 Aug 2013 Post subject: and also illegal

Geneva Conventions. For instance, soldiers are not permitted to impersonate humanitarian workers and enemy soldiers. In contrast, some ruses,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], misinformation,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], false operations, camouflage, and ambush of combatants are explicitly permissible. Cyberattacks almost inevitably involve an element of deception,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], such as tricking a user to click on a malicious link. So, to what extent could cyberattacks count as perfidy and therefore be illegal given international humanitarian law? (Consider,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], for instance, a fake email addressed from the International Committee of the Red Cross to a military organization, but actually sent by some malicious nation-state along with a virus: how is this different from posing as a Red Cross worker?) We don't get as angry when software betrays us as when people betray us. But maybe we should.To understand why perfidy is prohibited,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], we can look at its twin concept of treachery: a prototypical example of a treacherous (and also illegal) act in war is to kill with poison. But why should poison