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Subject: [ISN] Cyber warfare unregulated, says IDF adviser
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Date: 2014-05-20 8:13:42
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By Gili Cohen
Haaretz.com
May 20, 2014
Iyyar 20, 5774
Speaking at the CyberNight conference at the Shamoon College of
Engineering in Be'er Sheva, Maj. A., the Military Intelligence legal
adviser, described the role of legal consulting in the era of cybernetic
warfare, saying that "Although the field is not regulated – and because
the field is not regulated – the legal adviser plays a central role. This
role is developing on the job, step by step, because there is no
breakthrough convention or legislation" on the horizon.
The IDF last year appointed a legal adviser for cyber warfare, whose main
task is to regulate cyber warfare activities, based on principles of
international law. The military has refused to confirm whether one of this
adviser's tasks is to approve targets, as it is for most of its legal
advisers in operational positions.
Many field commanders have been critical of these legal advisers' work,
said Maj. A. "Our ‘customers,' at least some of them, perceive the jurists
as interfering, rather than helping," she said. "It's no small challenge."
Maj. A. said that when providing advice "for various operations," as she
put it, she often had no choice but to rely on the Law and Administration
Ordinance of 1948, "which has a clause that is still relevant, which says
the army is allowed to take any legal step necessary to protect the State
of Israel. That's how we operate today."
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