AW: [governance] UN & Information Security

Thu Aug 16 08:18:01 EDT 2012

Maybe this is also of some interest: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-19271083; http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2012/08/15/bibis-secret-war-plan/. 

Best regards,

Philipp

Von: governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org [mailto:governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org] Im Auftrag von Fahd A. Batayneh
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 16. August 2012 13:14
An: Fouad Bajwa
Cc: governance at lists.igcaucus.org
Betreff: Re: [governance] UN & Information Security

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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