[governance] UN & Information Security

[Fahd A. Batayneh]

Maybe because having an insecure Internet means ease of cyber attacking
other nations (such as the StuxNet, Flame, and Gauss). We all know what was
the purpose of these worms.

In other words, an insecure Internet paves the way for a platform where
cyber-wars can take place as opposed to physical wars.

Fahd

On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Fouad Bajwa <fouadbajwa at gmail.com> wrote:

> Why do you think the single vote is always against it. Everyone talks
> about cyber protection but one wants to retain counter cyber protection
> rights and act beyond.
>
> Fouad Bajwa
> On Aug 16, 2012 2:05 AM, "Fahd A. Batayneh" <fahd.batayneh at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> An interesting paper.
>>
>> It mentions that "*With respect to military applications of information
>> technology, the US considered an international convention to be ‘completely
>> unnecessary’ as ‘the law of armed conflict and its principles of necessity,
>> proportionality and limitation of collateral damage already govern the use
>> of such technologies’*".
>>
>> The report also states later on that "*After the first GGE process, the
>> dynamics of the First Committee discussions on international information
>> security changed considerably. Russia opened the resolution for
>> co-sponsorship, while the United States started voting against it in
>> subsequent years. Between 2005 and 2008 the US was the sole country to vote
>> against the Resolution that attracted co-sponsors during the same time*".
>>
>> It goes on to say that "*Recommendations also met the request of several
>> nations to elaborate common terms and definitions relevant to the
>> Resolution. Further, information exchange on national legislation and
>> national ICT security strategies, policies and best practices were
>> recommended as well as identification of measures to support
>> capacity-building in less developed countries*"
>>
>> And we all wonder why there is no proper initiatives in hand to combat
>> and reduce cyber-threats, and increase levels of security online.
>>
>> Fahd
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 10:09 AM, "Kleinwächter, Wolfgang" <
>> wolfgang.kleinwaechter at medienkomm.uni-halle.de> wrote:
>>
>>> FYI
>>>
>>> http://ict4peace.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Eneken-GGE-2012-Brief.pdf
>>>
>>> wolfgang
>>>
>>>
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