Time to Treat Hackers Like Satellites: Why Cyber Needs the Outer Space Rulebook

Time to Treat Hackers Like Satellites: Why Cyber Needs the Outer Space Rulebook

Time to Treat Hackers Like Satellites: Why Cyber Needs the Outer Space Rulebook If you want to understand what’s missing in cyberspace, look up. In 1967, at the height of the Cold War, the international community agreed on the Outer Space Treaty (OST), a legal...
Interning a Hacker

Interning a Hacker

Interning a Hacker Recently, at a workshop at Harvard Law School, I grappled with the question of internment in any international armed conflict (IAC) in the near future. It is a question some are uncomfortable with, although the concept of internment remains legally...
One Year On: Are the ICRC’s Principles for Civilian Hackers Shaping the Laws of War?

One Year On: Are the ICRC’s Principles for Civilian Hackers Shaping the Laws of War?

One Year On: Are the ICRC’s Principles for Civilian Hackers Shaping the Laws of War? In October 2023, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) laid down a stark warning: cyber warfare must not spiral into lawless destruction. Their eight rules for...
Hybrid Threats and Grey Zone Conflict Symposium – Rethinking Coercion in Cyberspace

Hybrid Threats and Grey Zone Conflict Symposium – Rethinking Coercion in Cyberspace

Hybrid Threats and Grey Zone Conflict Symposium – Rethinking Coercion in Cyberspace Editors note: The following post highlights a chapter that appears in Mitt Regan and Aurel Sari’s recently published book Hybrid Threats and Grey Zone Conflict: The Challenge to...
Russia’s Alleged Nuclear Anti-Satellite Weapon: International Law and Political Rhetoric

Russia’s Alleged Nuclear Anti-Satellite Weapon: International Law and Political Rhetoric

Russia’s Alleged Nuclear Anti-Satellite Weapon: International Law and Political Rhetoric The development and testing of anti-satellite weapons (ASATs), as well as debates concerning the legal and policy implications of ASAT testing and use, have existed since soon...