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color=#0000ff><FONT size=2>F<SPAN class=951165122-01022010>or the agenda of the
next IGF?</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><B>From:</B> Richard Forno <<A
href="mailto:rforno@infowarrior.org">rforno@infowarrior.org</A>><BR><B>Date:</B>
February 1, 2010 5:27:28 PM EST<BR><B>To:</B> Infowarrior List <<A
href="mailto:infowarrior@attrition.org">infowarrior@attrition.org</A>><BR><B>Cc:</B>
Dave Farber <<A
href="mailto:dave@farber.net">dave@farber.net</A>><BR><B>Subject:</B> <B>UN
calls for global cyber treaty</B><BR><BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<DIV><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>Once again, we hear rumblings of "internet
drivers' liscenses as part of any 'solutions' to 'protect' the net.....
-rf</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>UN calls for
global cyber treaty</SPAN><BR><SPAN><A
href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/security/soa/UN-calls-for-global-cyber-treaty/0,130061744,339300673,00.htm?omnRef=1337">http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/security/soa/UN-calls-for-global-cyber-treaty/0,130061744,339300673,00.htm?omnRef=1337</A></SPAN><BR><SPAN>By
AAP</SPAN><BR><SPAN>01 February 2010 10:07 AM</SPAN><BR><SPAN>Tags: un,
treaty, security, google, china, cyber, war, attack</SPAN><BR><SPAN>The world
needs a treaty to prevent cyber attacks becoming an all-out war, the head of
the main UN communications and technology agency has
warned.</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>International Telcommunications Union
secretary general Hamadoun Toure gave his warning on Saturday at a World
Economic Forum debate where experts said nations must now consider when a
cyber attack becomes a declaration of
war.</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>With attacks on Google from China a
major talking point in Davos, Toure said the risk of a cyber conflict between
two nations grows every year.</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>He proposed a
treaty in which countries would engage not to make the first cyber strike
against another nation.</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>"A cyber war would be
worse than a tsunami — a catastrophe," the UN official said, highlighting
examples such as attacks on Estonia last
year.</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>He proposed an international accord,
adding: "The framework would look like a peace treaty before a
war."</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>Countries should guarantee to protect
their citizens and their right to access to information, promise not to
harbour cyber terrorists and "should commit themselves not to attack
another".</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>John Negroponte, former director of
US intelligence, said intelligence agencies in the major powers would be the
first to "express reservations" about such an
accord.</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>Susan Collins, a US Republican
senator who sits on several senate military and home affairs committees, said
the prospect of a cyber attack sparking a war was now being considered in the
United States.</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>"If someone bombed the
electric grid in our country and we saw the bombers coming in it would clearly
be an act of war.</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>"If that same country uses
sophisticated computers to knock out our electricity grid, I definitely think
we are getting closer to saying it is an act of war," Collins
said.</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>Craig Mundie, chief research and
strategy officer for Microsoft, said "there are at least 10 countries in the
world whose internet capability is sophisticated enough to carry out cyber
attacks ... and they can make it appear to come from
anywhere."</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>"The internet is the biggest
command and control centre for every bad guy out there," he
said.</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>The head of online security company
McAfee told another Davos debate on Friday that China, the United States,
Russia, Israel and France were among 20 countries locked in a cyberspace arms
race and gearing up for possible internet
hostilities.</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>Mundie and other experts have
said there is a growing need to police the internet to clampdown on fraud,
espionage and the spread of viruses.</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>"People
don't understand the scale of criminal activity on the internet. Whether
criminal, individual or nation states, the community is growing more
sophisticated," the Microsoft executive
said.</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>"We need a kind of World Health
Organisation for the internet," he said.</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>He
also called fo a "driver's licence" for internet
users.</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>"If you want to drive a car you have
to have a licence to say that you are capable of driving a car, the car has to
pass a test to say it is fit to drive and you have to have
insurance."</SPAN></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
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