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Phoenix666 [soylentnews.org] writes:

Plans are underway to update a putative Geneva convention for cyberwar [theregister.co.uk], put together by experts in international law and backed by an Estonian-based NATO-run military think tank.

The Tallinn Manual 2.0 is on track for publication in the second half of 2016, following a drafting conference of legal experts in the Estonian capital this week. The original manual provided a handbook on how principles of international law could be applied to conflict in cyberspace, which military strategists consider to be the fifth dimension of warfare (land, air, sea and space being the other four).
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Tallinn Manual 2.0 will expand the scope of the original manual to incorporate so-called peacetime international law, addressing incidents that states frequently face, such as human rights law, a particularly tawny subject. “The most difficult material proved to be international human rights law governing activities in cyberspace,” said Liis Vihul, managing editor of the Tallinn Manual and legal researcher at the Tallinn-based the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence.

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