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Australia says it's under nation-state cyberattack

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Re: Australia says it's under nation-state cyberattack

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Just as covid seemed to hit many with little warning and little preparation, serious cyberattacks will at some point too.

Nations need to have more preparation, funding, and simulations, for potential large future cyberattacks before one causes significant destruction.

Re: Australia says it's under nation-state cyberattack

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Just as covid seemed to hit many with little warning and little preparation, serious cyberattacks will at some point too. Nations need to have more preparation, funding, and simulations, for potential large future cyberattacks before one causes significant destruction.

They simulate all of them, still screw it up when it happens. 9/11 was simulated, pandemic was simulated, etc.

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Should the international laws be amended to consider state-led cyber attacks an act of war in additional to traditional aggression? Seems like UN Security Council should deal with these matters.

How is the UN Security Council going to do anything when China is one of its charter members?

They can veto anything.

Context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_vetoed_United_Nations_...

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Should the international laws be amended to consider state-led cyber attacks an act of war in additional to traditional aggression? Seems like UN Security Council should deal with these matters.

It's probably best to consider them a new kind of attack. As long as they don't kill people directly, they are closer to economic wars.

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Should the international laws be amended to consider state-led cyber attacks an act of war in additional to traditional aggression? Seems like UN Security Council should deal with these matters.

How is the UN Security Council going to do anything when China is one of its charter members? They can veto anything. Context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_vetoed_United_Nations_...

Not to mention hacking attribution is extremely difficult. Read up on the “evidence” used to attribute the DNC hack.

It’s the kind of stuff that wouldn’t pass the smell test with security engineers here.

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post #4

Should the international laws be amended to consider state-led cyber attacks an act of war in additional to traditional aggression? Seems like UN Security Council should deal with these matters.

How is the UN Security Council going to do anything when China is one of its charter members? They can veto anything. Context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_vetoed_United_Nations_...

By recognizing Taiwan as the defacto China

Re: Australia says it's under nation-state cyberattack

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Should the international laws be amended to consider state-led cyber attacks an act of war in additional to traditional aggression? Seems like UN Security Council should deal with these matters.

What would the UN do with this? Quite a few wars in recent memory involved members of the security council, and the same would likely apply to cyberwarfare.

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Should the international laws be amended to consider state-led cyber attacks an act of war in additional to traditional aggression? Seems like UN Security Council should deal with these matters.

I thought cyber attacks generally were considered acts of war.

But what are you going to do about it? Start shooting in China's general direction?

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