Information Warfare - Are We Already At War?



: Olli I. Heimo, Kai K. Kimppa

: TERRELL WARD BYNUM, WILLIAM FLEISHMAN, ANNE GERDES, GITTE MØLDRUP NIELSEN, SIMON ROGERSON

: 2013

: ETHICOMP Conference Series

: The possibilities of ethical ICT

: Ethicomp

: 13

: 207

: 212

: 6

: 978-87-92646-72-9


According to Pentagon, USA can consider an information warfare act as reason to use any weapons
suitable as recourse. At the same time they, amongst others, are already attacking countries that they
are  not  officially  at  war  with  information  warfare  weapons.  In  this  paper  we  look  at  the  currently
known information warfare weapons used and whether they are morally or socially justified. First we
define what we mean with information warfare in this paper. Then we look at the justifications used
arising from the societies or other groups which are known to have used information warfare. Finally,
we look at the possible moral justifications and their problems.



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