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Ethics and cyberwarfare : the quest for responsible security in the age of digital warfare / George Lucas.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lucas, George R., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cyberspace operations (Military science).
- National security.
- Hacktivism.
- Computer crimes.
- State crimes.
- Information warfare--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Information warfare.
- Information technology--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Information technology.
- Just war doctrine.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 187 pages) : illustration
- Other Title:
- Quest for responsible security in the age of digital warfare
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- 'State sponsored hacktivism' constitutes a wholly new alternative to conventional armed conflict. This work explores the ethical and legal dimensions of this 'soft' mode warfare grounded in a broad revisionist approach to military ethics and 'just war theory' that results in a new code of ethics for today's 'cyber warriors.'
- Contents:
- Introduction: crime or warfare?
- Cyber (in)security: threat assessment in the cyber domain
- Is there a role for ethics or law in cyber conflict?
- The Tallinn Manual: international law in the aftermath of Estonia
- Genuine ethics versus "folk morality" in cyberspace
- If Aristotle waged cyberwar: how norms emerge from practice
- Privacy, anonymity, and the rise of state-sponsored hacktivism
- NSA management directive #424: anticipatory national self-defense
- Conclusion: toward a "code of ethics" for cyber warriors.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 10, 2016).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-027654-1
- 0-19-027655-X
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