Professor michael schmidt (pictured right) is chairman of the International Law Department at the United States Naval War College in Rhodes Island. We caught up with him at a recent International Conference on Cyber Conflict in Tallinn.Q Ethics of cyber conflict… a problem of extreme importance and sheer uncertainty. Is there still a lot of work for lawyers, for the issue appears to be a total legalistic blank spot at the moment?A Yes and no. There's absolutely no question that very little work on cyber warfare had been done until the Tallinn Manual Project was launched a couple of years ago. We discovered that although we had thought we were moving into a new legal area, the existing law worked fairly well in cyberspace too.
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