In cyberwar, nobody is neutral

Posted By Evgeny Morozov Tuesday, October 27, 2009 - 1:08 PM Share

In the age of cyberwarfare, even Switzerland's neutrality is not a given. Neutral or not, they'll still be attacked: 

BERN, Switzerland - The Swiss Foreign Ministry says it was the victim of a "professional" cyber attack aimed at obtaining information from its computer network.

Spokesman Georg Farago says the ministry cut the connection between its network and the Internet after the attack was discovered on Thursday.

 
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3:01 PM ET

October 29, 2009

I wonder how long it will be

I wonder how long it will be until we have a legal definition for cyber neutrality and the technological means to enforce it.

 

Evgeny Morozov, originally from Belarus, is a visiting scholar at Stanford and a Schwartz Fellow at the New America Foundation.

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