Cyberterrorism and Computer Crimes: Issues Surrounding the Establishment of an International Legal Regime

摘要

This is the 32nd volume in the Occasional Paper series of the U.S. Air Force Institute for National Security Studies (INSS). This paper, along with Occasional Paper 33, Steven Rinaldi's 'Sharing the Knowledge: Government- Private Sector Partnerships to Enhance Information Security,' address the context surrounding the question of how the U.S. military responds to the cyber threat facing the American military and society today. Rinaldi examines the issues of partnering and sharing sensitive information across private and governmental sectors as a central requirement of a national risk reduction and management effort in the face of the threat of cyber attack. In this paper, Richard Aldrich examines definitional and jurisdictional issues, constitutional and statutory concerns, and both the necessity and desirability of an international treaty addressing cyberterrorism and computer crime. Together these two papers provide fresh thinking and critical perspective on a security threat arena that increasingly captivates the headlines.