In waging cyber war, battlefield becomes blurred

Kate Jastram quoted in San Francisco Chronicle, Dot.Commentary, June 10, 2012

Kate Jastram, a lecturer in residence at UC Berkeley Law School, doesn’t think the U.S. action qualifies as an armed attack. But she does think Stuxnet and similar efforts demand a re-evaluation of questions surrounding the traditional rules of war, such as: What level of damage from a cyber attack constitutes a use of force or armed attack? What’s a proportional response, and how sure should we be of the source of an attack before we can respond?