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I wasn't aware there was international law pertaining to not hacking medical facilities in the same way there is law pertaining to not bombing them.

• deleted 3y ago
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• dmvdoug 3y ago
  There isn’t, of course, but they are clearly laying the groundwork to extend IHL that direction. Which, as I said in a different comment, seems to me like it would require an Additional Protocol to the GCs, because it surely isn’t and won’t be customary IHL.
• morsch 3y ago
  It seems completely obvious that humanitarian law also covers cyber attacks. Rule 15. In the conduct of military operations, constant care must be taken to spare the civilian population, civilians and civilian objects. All feasible precautions must be taken to avoid, and in any event to minimize, incidental loss of civilian life, injury to civilians and damage to civilian objects. Disabling a hospital by attacking its IT obviously will lead to loss of life of injury and is thus, other factors notwithstanding, not permissible. If you attack power infrastructure (using bombs or by hacking, doesn't matter), that's probably also a war crime because it's indiscriminate and, among other things, affects hospital and other civilian infrastructure. https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary-ihl/v1/rule15 https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary-ihl/v1/rule15 https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary-ihl/v1 https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary-ihl/v1
  • adhesive_wombat 3y ago
    It should be, but I'm not sure it is, considering the use of dedicated weapons like graphite bombs to disable 85% of the grid in the Gulf War. But maybe you have to ratify Protocol I of the Geneva Conventions for that to apply. And we'll see how well they're enforced after a ratifying country has been hammering civilian infrastructure in Ukraine.
  • causi 3y ago
    Nothing is illegal until someone is punished for doing it.