JUST WAR AND CYBERWAR |
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Authors: | Christopher J. Eberle |
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Affiliation: | 1. United States Naval Academy , Annapolis , MD , United States eberle@usna.edu |
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Abstract: | My aim in this paper is to reflect on a very narrow question: under what conditions might a cyber-attack provide a just cause for war? I begin by articulating what makes for a just cause, briefly address the problem of attribution, and then discuss three broad categories of cyber-attack: those that clearly do not satisfy the just cause requirement, those that clearly do satisfy the just cause requirement, and three ambiguous cases – the destruction of property, the emplacement of logic bombs, and the failure to prevent cyber-attacks. My conclusions are exploratory and suggestive rather than definitive, partly by virtue of the extreme paucity of literature on the moral assessment of cyberwar. |
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Keywords: | Cyberwar just cause just war tradition attribution logic bomb Joel Brenner Richard Clarke |
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