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Cyber Law And Espionage Law As Communicating Vessels, Asaf Lubin
Cyber Law And Espionage Law As Communicating Vessels, Asaf Lubin
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Professor Lubin's contribution is "Cyber Law and Espionage Law as Communicating Vessels," pp. 203-225.
Existing legal literature would have us assume that espionage operations and “below-the-threshold” cyber operations are doctrinally distinct. Whereas one is subject to the scant, amorphous, and under-developed legal framework of espionage law, the other is subject to an emerging, ever-evolving body of legal rules, known cumulatively as cyber law. This dichotomy, however, is erroneous and misleading. In practice, espionage and cyber law function as communicating vessels, and so are better conceived as two elements of a complex system, Information Warfare (IW). This paper therefore first draws …