[governance] Tallin Manual - a Cyber Warfare convention?

[Carlos A. Afonso]

E.g, Camp Delta (a.k.a. Guantánamo) is going through a full-fledged 
hunger strike for more than 45 days now -- so far 26 inmates officially 
(US count) adhered to it, but The US-based Center for Constitutional 
Rights estimates up to 130 inmates are involved in the protest. Inmates 
being force-fed and so on (*). This will be the culmination of a human 
rights tragedy which goes (so far) unpunished, practiced by the 
self-attributed greatest democracy on Earth.

People there have nothing to lose except their (now miserable) lives. 
The US gov, on the contrary, will be heavily impacted by the 
consequences of this. But the belief in a war-oriented policy of human 
rights (meaning human rights will always be subsidiary to any other 
national priority) has consequences, terrible consequences.

And now they promise to start killing hackers. Go figure...

--c.a.

(*) http://rt.com/news/guantanamo-bay-hunger-strike-399/

On 03/24/2013 01:37 PM, Louis Pouzin (well) wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 3:40 AM, Ian Peter <ian.peter at ianpeter.com> wrote:
>
>>    As Samuel Morse might have remarked, “What God hath wrought”.
>>
>> A landmark document created at the request of NATO has proposed a set of
>> rules for how international cyberwarfare should be conducted. Written by 20
>> experts in conjunction with the International Committee of the Red Cross
>> and the US Cyber Command, the*Tallinn Manual on the International Law
>> Applicable to Cyber Warfare*<http://issuu.com/nato_ccd_coe/docs/tallinnmanual?mode=embed&layout=http%3A%2F%2Fskin.issuu.com%2Fv%2Flight%2Flayout.xml&showFlipBtn=true>
>>   analyzes the rules of conventional war and applies them to
>> state-sponsored cyberattacks.
>>
>>
>> http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/21/4130740/tallin-manual-on-the-international-law-applicable-to-cyber-warfare
>>
>>   - - -
>>
>
> Thanks Ian for precious links. It seems that time is coming for legal
> definitions of cyberwarfare, in which we are living already. Initiatives
> belong to the powers that be, the only ones with the capacity to follow or
> violate the rules. CS doesn't have much influence, except through
> occasional media power.
>
> Some more frightening documents on real war:
>
> http://www.salon.com/2013/02/19/latin_america_territorio_libre_from_the_cia_partner/?source=newsletter&utm_source=contactology&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Salon_Daily%20Newsletter%20%28Premium%29_7_30_110
>
> http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/projects/globalizing-torture
>
> One may observe that oppressive regimes resort to coded sanitized language
> to mean illegal and criminal activities. This was anticipated by Orwell
> (newspeak), and turned real with soviet labor camp (concentration), nazism
> special treatment (gas chamber), maoism reeducation (deportation), bushism
> and obamism extraordinary rendition (torture), inter alia.
>
> Louis
>

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