Guns & Drugs on the Deep Web

jdg8 at June 17,2016
I would guess that the biggest problem for defining cyber crimes and cyber warfare is understanding the scope of all parties involved committing such acts. Nations or organizations that commit cyber crimes sometimes require huge infrastructure into the design of their plans, from hardware capabilities, software design, telecommunications, etc. As technology continues to advance, laws may not be able to constitute specifically what crime was committed by other alleged parties to a crime. However, legal teams may be able to prove conspiracy to a crime in court if lawyers can show that the acting parties had enough knowledge about the potential dangers of their technology being used and knowingly provided services to those willing to do harm. Just and educated guess.

jdg8 at June 17,2016
I would guess that the biggest problem for defining cyber crimes and cyber warfare is understanding the scope of all parties involved committing such acts. Nations or organizations that commit cyber crimes sometimes require huge infrastructure into the design of their plans, from hardware capabilities, software design, telecommunications, etc. As technology continues to advance, laws may not be able to constitute specifically what crime was committed by other alleged parties to a crime. However, legal teams may be able to prove conspiracy to a crime in court if lawyers can show that the acting parties had enough knowledge about the potential dangers of their technology being used and knowingly provided services to those willing to do harm. Just and educated guess.

dgrove at June 20,2016
I think it is very hard to define what cyber events would be cyber war crimes. In the rules of war, you are not supposed to attack hospitals, schools, and religious buildings indiscriminately. However, if a nation did attack another nations power grid and hospitals lost power and people died as a result, would that be a war crime? I could see the argument being the attacking nation was targeting X base, and the Y hospital happened to be on the same grid, so since the hospital wasn't the target the deaths are considered collateral damage.

ronnypaladino at June 21,2016
These are very scary, especially when knowing that ours systems are not secure and that administrators do not adhere to the best security policies. A SCADA attack can cause huge damages, take out power grids, etc. International laws need to be implemented and enforced, but to really address the issue, our systems should be secured and we need to have an agile reporting mechanism (Maybe with the FBI) in place to report the attacks. This would enable a quick response to track the bad guys, and later after the investigation is concluded, prosecute under international laws.

ronnypaladino at June 21,2016
These are very scary, especially when knowing that ours systems are not secure and that administrators do not adhere to the best security policies. A SCADA attack can cause huge damages, take out power grids, etc. International laws need to be implemented and enforced, but to really address the issue, our systems should be secured and we need to have an agile reporting mechanism (Maybe with the FBI) in place to report the attacks. This would enable a quick response to track the bad guys, and later after the investigation is concluded, prosecute under international laws.