No one knows how to define an 'act of cyber war' and that's becoming a big problem
Paul Szoldra
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What actually constitutes an act of cyber warfare? There's a Republican senator who wants to figure that out.
Everyone knows hackers are breaking into networks quite regularly, whether they be hacktivists, criminals, or foreign intelligence services. But there's never been a clear definition of "cyber war," even if that term is thrown around often by cybersecurity experts and politicians alike.
"More or less, we all engage in some manner of [cyber] warfare these days, we just don't go to 'war' over it," Bradley Moss, a national security lawyer, told Tech Insider last month.
Now enter the Cyber Act of War Act of 2016, a bill introduced in May by Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), which would require the White House to come up with a specific policy that defines acts of cyber war. It would be the digital addendum to what the US defines as an act of war in its legal code.
http://www.techinsider.io/what-is-an-act-of-cyber-war-2016-6
http://www.rounds.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Bill,%20NDAA%202017%20Related,%20Cyber%20Act%20of%20War.pdf
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2331
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