NAS report on Cyber attack issues

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: "Brownstein, Charles" <Charles.Brownstein () hsi dhs gov>
Date: April 29, 2009 4:21:46 PM EDT
To: <dave () farber net>
Subject: FW: NAS report on Cyber attack issues

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/30/science/30cyber.html?hp
April 30, 2009
Panel Warns U.S. on Cyberwar Plans

By JOHN MARKOFF and THOM SHANKER
The United States has no clear military policy about how the nation  
might respond to a cyberattack on its communications, financial or  
power networks, a panel of scientists and policy advisers warned  
Wednesday, and the country needs to clarify both its offensive  
capabilities and how it would respond to such attacks.
The report, based on a three-year study by a panel assembled by the  
National Academy of Sciences, is the first major effort to look at the  
military use of computer technologies as weapons. The potential use of  
such technologies offensively has been widely discussed in recent  
years, and disruptions of communications systems and Web sites have  
become a standard occurrence in both political and military conflicts  
since 2000.

The report, titled “Technology, Policy, Law, and Ethics Regarding U.S.  
Acquisition and Use of Cyberattack Capabilities,” concludes that the  
veil of secrecy that has surrounded cyberwar planning is detrimental  
to the country’s military policy. The report’s authors include Adm.  
William A. Owens, a former vice chairman of the joint chiefs of staff;  
William O. Studeman, former deputy director of the Central  
Intelligence Agency; and Walter B. Slocombe, former under secretary of  
defense for policy. Scientists and cyberspecialists on the panel  
included Richard L. Garwin, an I.B.M. physicist.
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