Sitting on the sofa, listening to Brahm’s first symphony, eating some bread, cheese and some kind of sausage. I’m thinking about my job, and Russia invading Ukraine. Just as we thought COVID-19 was over! 🙄
I’m not sure what I should think of citizen hackers participating in acts of war: damaging enemy infrastructure and all that. Is this the new partisan programmer? And when the army comes and takes a town, are the programmers then considered to be programmer at arms? That is to say, enemy combatants to be carried off to torture prisons?
The USA has made clear that they don’t believe in upholding the Geneva Conventions when they pick up people fighting for the enemy that aren’t clearly marked by a uniform. They were not treated as prisoners of war. You know what happened to the enemy combatants.
What sort of future are we working towards? I don’t like where this is going. I guess we all believe in total war, now.
Like, if I think Anonymous is cool and we’re hacking the system to expose evil doers, that’s great. But if agency hackers join us to hack the enemy so that they can fight a war under the cover of plausible deniability, I… I just don’t want any part in that blurring of the lines. If I go and join the war in person as a volunteer or mercenary, that has consequences. If I break into computers from the safety of my home, what am I? A cybercriminal? A traitor? An enemy combatant?
Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse by the USA in Iraq
Sportspalast speech, also known as the Total War speech by Göbbels
Hacktivism im Krieg: Zwischen digitaler Sitzblockade und Cyberwar
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