Killing hackers is 'justified' in Cyber Warfare, says NATO-commissioned manual

[ExomatrixTV]

Killing hackers is 'justified' in Cyber Warfare, says NATO-commissioned manual/report:




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 analyzes the rules of conventional war and applies them to state-sponsored cyberattacks.


Unsurprisingly, the manual advises that attacks must avoid targets such as hospitals, dams, and nuclear power stations in order to minimize civilian casualties, but also makes some bold statements regarding retaliatory conduct. According to the manual's authors, it's acceptable to retaliate against cyberattacks with traditional weapons when a state can prove the attack lead to death or severe property damage. It also says that hackers who perpetrate attacks are legitimate targets for a counterstrike.


"There's plenty of law that applies to cyberspace."

Project leader Professor Michael Schmitt, the Chairman of the International Law Department at the United States Naval War College, tells The Guardian that countries "can only use force when you reach the level of armed conflict," explaining that in most cases the appropriate response to a cyberattack would be digital retaliation. "Everyone talks about cyberspace as though it's the wild west," says Schmitt, "we discovered that there's plenty of law that applies to cyberspace."

http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/21/41...-cyber-warfare

[ghostrider]

all life is sacred... killing is not the answer ... look at all the wars, murders, etc... hasn't changed a thing ...

[Frank Hewitt]

Every day we get closer to the new world order, but when all the pieces of the puzzle fit together, when all the hackers die, when our consciousness fade and when darkness dominates gaea, light will come back more powerful than ever, one of the basic principles of the yin-yang. No one has the right to own, kill or hurt anyone, what you fight you become, and as they kill hackers, their light will increase and this nightmare will come to an end

[ghostrider]

poor powers that be, they are doomed to fate of their own mentality, every evil they conspire to do, will come right back to them... guess they never heard the phrase , you reap what you sow ...if they steal, something gets stolen from them, if they kill, someone close to them gets killed, if they make war, someone makes war against them, if they lie, someone will lie to them... their own mentality seals their fate ... they are extincting themselves and don't even know it ...as they target the others , someone targets them ... isn't Karma great ? it respects no one = an equal opporutnity mechanism ... back at the source , millions of years ago , we collectively set in motion , a barrier they cannot go around ...

[sigma6]

I guess it makes sense, if I have the biggest stick and the biggest muscle, then of course I am justified in bashing someone else on the head. Especially someone who is beating me at a game I started, initiated and damaged others over. Makes perfect sense to me.

They justify killing everybody for everything. So desperate are the TPTWB. When the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem is a nail. Those who live by the sword, die by the sword. Shows the depth of their shallow thinking and lack of moral character imo. I guess since they can't make any money by imprisoning them and creating bonds from their security (since it is held by another country) They have faked up a 'moral' justification for death and note also "property destruction".