http://thebulletin.org/cyberwarfare-ethics-or-how-facebook-could-accidentally-make-its-engineers-targets7404
SUMMARY: If your company's infrastructure or servers are used as part of a cyberattack, even unknowingly, the Geneva Convention permits the target of the attack to rain hell down on your head. You became an "unlawful combatant" at that point, or perhaps a "civilian directly participating in hostilities".
:wtf:
That's right. In IT, we have danger for breakfast, peril for lunch, and extreme hazard for dinner.
Quote from: deanwebb on June 09, 2015, 03:52:31 PM
http://thebulletin.org/cyberwarfare-ethics-or-how-facebook-could-accidentally-make-its-engineers-targets7404
SUMMARY: If your company's infrastructure or servers are used as part of a cyberattack, even unknowingly, the Geneva Convention permits the target of the attack to rain hell down on your head. You became an "unlawful combatant" at that point, or perhaps a "civilian directly participating in hostilities".
:wtf:
That's right. In IT, we have danger for breakfast, peril for lunch, and extreme hazard for dinner.
Where's the hazard pay?
So what about when the goverment gets info on when a person posts where their hidden base is and thus the base gets bombed cause they were dumb and posted it on facebook (this has happened) Can they bomb facebook?
Quote from: dlots on June 09, 2015, 04:35:55 PM
So what about when the goverment gets info on when a person posts where their hidden base is and thus the base gets bombed cause they were dumb and posted it on facebook (this has happened) Can they bomb facebook?
While I can't argue your logic, I don't view ISIS as a government. Nor do I think ISIS really cares what we think the rules are... I'm sure they'd blow Facebook and a multitude of other places up if they had their way.
FB probably won't be a target for something like that. However, if FB servers were co-opted by government A to launch an attack on government B, government B would be able to justify taking down the FB servers in order to stop the attack on their own territory.