{"id":21306,"date":"2013-08-30T06:29:39","date_gmt":"2013-08-30T14:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=21306"},"modified":"2013-08-30T06:29:39","modified_gmt":"2013-08-30T14:29:39","slug":"us-offensive-cyber-warfare-is-illegal-unless-we-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/30\/us-offensive-cyber-warfare-is-illegal-unless-we-do-it\/","title":{"rendered":"US: Offensive Cyber-Warfare is Illegal&#8230;Unless We Do It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is official U.S. policy that offensive cyberwarfare is subject to international laws of war and, if perpetrated against the United States, may trigger a military response.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Washington Post<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/us-official-says-cyberattacks-can-trigger-self-defense-rule\/2012\/09\/18\/c2246c1a-0202-11e2-b260-32f4a8db9b7e_story.html\">reported<\/a> last year: &#8220;Cyberattacks can amount to armed attacks triggering the right of self-defense and are subject to international laws of war, the State Department\u2019s top lawyer said Tuesday.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In other news&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The CIA and the NSA have begun aggressive new efforts to hack into foreign computer networks to steal information or sabotage enemy systems, embracing what the budget refers to as &#8216;offensive cyber operations,'&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/black-budget-summary-details-us-spy-networks-successes-failures-and-objectives\/2013\/08\/29\/7e57bb78-10ab-11e3-8cdd-bcdc09410972_story.html\">reports<\/a> the <em>Washington Post<\/em>\u00a0this week, based on documents they received from Edward Snowden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is official U.S. policy that offensive cyberwarfare is subject to international laws of war and, if perpetrated against the United States, may trigger a military response. The Washington Post reported last year: &#8220;Cyberattacks can amount to armed attacks triggering the right of self-defense and are subject to international laws of war, the State Department\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-21306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21306"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21308,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21306\/revisions\/21308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21306"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=21306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}