Military commanders do not want to be tried for war crimes, even if those crimes are committed online.
Generally, the view that I've had on Twitter is if you're on Twitter, you're in, like, the meme - you're in meme war land. If you're on Twitter, you're in the arena. And so, essentially, if you attack me, it is therefore OK for me to attack back.
When it comes to the cyberwarfare piece, we're going to have to deal with it.
Digital warfare, in the Clausewitz definition as 'the continuation of policy by other means,' reached Western public consciousness via my own country, Estonia, in 2007 when our governmental, banking, and news media servers were hit with 'distributed denial-of-service attacks,' which is when hackers overload servers until they shut down.
Reality is the temporary resultant of continuous struggles between rival gangs of programmers.
To my knowledge, no one has died from a cyberattack... but there is a gray area between peace and war.
The reality of today from a cyber security point of view - I think some of the top people predict that the next big war is fought on cyber security.
Cyber war takes place largely in secret, unknown to the general public on both sides.
In the 19th century, there were only [the] Army and Navy. In the 20th century, we got airpower as the third dimension of war. In the 21st century, cyber will be the fourth dimension of war. It's another kind of weapon and it is for unlimited range and is very high speed, and, in a very low signature.
There's so much stuff flying around online, and it's so easy to get into arguments with people.
Сyber-warfare is obviously the future. It's a real concern, but we lie so much about what we do that it's hard to know what's going on unless you really follow it.
Will we shoot virtually at each other over the Internet? Probably not. On the other hand, there may be wars fought about the Internet.
The contrast of ISIL's videos - which proclaim a fully-functioning and prosperous state - with those of RBSS, which captured the dysfunction and violence of everyday life, is shocking. In a sense, it's a war of ideas, a war of propaganda, a war being waged with cameras and computers, not just guns.
The first serious infowar is now engaged. The field of battle is WikiLeaks. You are the troops.
Cyberspace is the new domain of warfare.
