
Cyberguerre
2007-05-28 à 16 h 16
À la suite d’événements récents en Estonie, la revue Nature nous offre une analyse intéressante de la notion de Cyberguerre.
This is all part of a bigger picture in which Estonia and its neighbour Russia are locked in bitter dispute sparked by the Soviet legacy. But the situation could provoke a reappraisal of what cyber-warfare might mean for international relations.
In particular, could it ever constitute a genuine act of war? “Not a single NATO defence minister would define a cyber-attack as a clear military action at present,” says the Estonian defence minister Jaak Aaviksoo — but he seems to doubt whether things should remain that way, adding that “this matter needs to be resolved in the near future.”
Bien sûr, la notion de cyberterrosime est bien établi, mais il s’agit d’actions non-étatiques :
But most of the considerable attention given to cyber-attack by military and defence experts has so far focused on the threat posed by individual aggressors, from bored teenage hackers to politically motivated terrorists. This raises challenges of how to make the Web secure, but does not really pose new questions for international law.
The Estonia case may change that, even if (as it seems) there was no official Russian involvement. Military attacks often now focus on the use of armaments to disable communications infrastructure, and it is hard to see how cyber-attacks are any different.
Cela soulève également la question de la réponse « appropriée ». Une frappe militaire serait démesurée est probablement futile. Une stratégie cybermilitaire verra-t-elle le jour?
À la suite d’événements récents en Estonie, la revue Nature nous offre une analyse intéressante de la notion de Cyberguerre.
This is all part of a bigger picture in which Estonia and its neighbour Russia are locked in bitter dispute sparked by the Soviet legacy. But the situation could provoke a reappraisal of what cyber-warfare might mean for international relations.
In particular, could it ever constitute a genuine act of war? “Not a single NATO defence minister would define a cyber-attack as a clear military action at present,” says the Estonian defence minister Jaak Aaviksoo — but he seems to doubt whether things should remain that way, adding that “this matter needs to be resolved in the near future.”
Bien sûr, la notion de cyberterrosime est bien établi, mais il s’agit d’actions non-étatiques :
But most of the considerable attention given to cyber-attack by military and defence experts has so far focused on the threat posed by individual aggressors, from bored teenage hackers to politically motivated terrorists. This raises challenges of how to make the Web secure, but does not really pose new questions for international law.
The Estonia case may change that, even if (as it seems) there was no official Russian involvement. Military attacks often now focus on the use of armaments to disable communications infrastructure, and it is hard to see how cyber-attacks are any different.
Cela soulève également la question de la réponse « appropriée ». Une frappe militaire serait démesurée est probablement futile. Une stratégie cybermilitaire verra-t-elle le jour?


