IT Staff Are Valid Military Targets

[deanwebb]

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".



That's right. In IT, we have danger for breakfast, peril for lunch, and extreme hazard for dinner.

[NetworkGroover]

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".



That's right. In IT, we have danger for breakfast, peril for lunch, and extreme hazard for dinner.

Where's the hazard pay?

[dlots]

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?

[NetworkGroover]

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.

[deanwebb]

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.