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Project Title:
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Policy Consequences and Legal Ethical Implications of Offensive Information Warfare
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PIN:
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CSTB-L-04-03-A
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Major Unit:
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Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences
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Sub Unit:
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Computer Science & Telecommuncations Board
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RSO:
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Lin, Herb
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Subject/Focus Area:
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Project Scope
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The NRC will appoint an ad hoc committee to examine policy dimensions and
legal/ethical implications of offensive information warfare, informed by expert
perspective of and knowledge of the underlying technologies. These policy
dimensions include but are not limited to factors that differentiate between
cyber-attack as a law enforcement matter versus cyber-attack as a national
security matter, the extent to which the U.S. Department of Defense is
constrained from acting in response to cyberattack of uncertain origin,
appropriate definitions of concepts such as "force" or "armed attack" as they
apply to different forms of offensive information warfare, the standards of
proof required to establish the origin of a cyber-attack, the nature and extent
of actions that the U.S. may take unilaterally against a foreign
cyber-attacker, the possible utility of offensive information warfare as a mode
of attack that is different than kinetic or physical attack, the nature and
extent to which offensive information warfare may be a part of conventional
military operations, and the extent to which a nation undertaking of offensive
information warfare may increase the likelihood that it would be attacked in
response, either similarly or dissimilarly. Project products will be directed
at policy makers and researchers, the former so that decision-making can occur
in a more informed manner and the latter so that other independent researchers
will have a firm base on which to ground their own work.
Sponsors: Macarthur Foundation; Microsoft; Internal NRC funds
Approximate start date: April 2006
A Final report will be issued at the end of project.
Note: The project duration has been extended and the final report is expected
to be issued by fall 2008.
Note (11/10/2008): The project duration has been extended and the final report is expected
to be issued by spring 2009.
Update: The report entitled "Technology, Policy, Law, and Ethics Regarding U.S. Acquisition and Use of Cyberattack Capabilities" was released in prepublication form on 04/29/2009 following a press briefing at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.
The report is available from the National Academies Press by visiting http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12651.
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Project Duration:
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18 months
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