IP: WashingtonPost.com: Military Grappling With Rules for Cyber Warfare

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

> Date: Sun, 07 Nov 1999 23:00:46 -0500
> To: farber () cis upenn edu
> From: "Karen A. Metivier-Carreiro" <metivier () gwu edu>
>
>
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35345-1999Nov7.html
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> Military Grappling With Rules for Cyber Warfare
>
> By Bradley Graham
> Washington Post Staff Writer
> Monday, November 8, 1999; Page A1
>
> During last spring's conflict with Yugoslavia, the Pentagon considered
> hacking into Serbian computer networks to disrupt military operations and
> basic civilian services. But it refrained from doing so, according to
> senior defense officials, because of continuing uncertainties and
> limitations surrounding the emerging field of cyber warfare.
>
> "We went through the drill of figuring out how we would do some of these
> cyber things if we were to do them," said a senior military officer. "But
> we never went ahead with any."
>
> [...]

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