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By Daniel Garrie

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5 Discuss:

a) Why do you think online dating is so successful these days? Tell about any experiences you may have had.

b) What other applications for algorithms do you think could be applied to a social group? OkCupid tackled dating -- what else is there?

DEFINING CYBERWARFARE... IN HOPES OF PREVENTING IT

Can you imagine a future where wars are fought not with bombs and bullets but computer viruses and pacemaker shutdowns? Cyberware is unique in that it is not covered by existing legal framework and it often inspires more questions than we are yet capable of answering. Daniel Garrie ponders some of the practical and ethical dilemmas that may pop up as we progress towards our uncertain future.

Translate into Russian:

Establishment, cyberwarfare, outlaw, multilateral, refer to, remotely, weapon, alter, constitute, envision, assassin, perpetrate, malfunction, pacemaker, infiltrate, allied, unleash, power grid, counterattack, cybersecurity, feeble, retaliation, antiquated, accountable, combat, enable, atrocity, atrocious, plausible, hypothetical, burgeoning, deter.

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While watching:

Fill in the gaps:

a) Wars are a tragic part of our history and will almost certainly be a tragic part of our future. Since the _____ of the United Nations, wars of _____ have been _____ and multilateral _____ refer to _____ conflict instead of war.

b) The origin of the power failure was the _____, but the fragile infrastructure, feeble _____ and the _____ state of the power grid all _____ to the deaths of the civilians.

c) Since the _____ of the United Nations, wars of _____ have been outlawed and _____ conventions refer to armed conflict instead of war.

d) Alongside traditional warfare, our future will include _____, remotely fighting our enemies through the use of a new class of weapons, including computer _____.

e) One way forward is to _____ situations where new _____ laws may be needed.

f) For example, an individual working for the government uses a _____ device to send a _____ to another foreign leader's _____. This _____ directs the pacemaker to _____, _____ resulting in the foreign leader's _____.

g) As a second example, imagine an _____ group of nations cooperatively _____ the computer systems of an enemy nation's _____ warship.

h) Commandeering _____ planes and using them as _____, dropping atomic _____, the use of gas _____ or _____ gas in conflict, all of these actions, if committed, _____ acts of war and war crimes under _____ international law and the _____ conventions.

After watching:

1 Match the words in A with the words in B:

A:	B:
1. multilateral	a. conflict
2. traditional	b. grid
3. international	c. conventions
4. wireless	d. measure
5. cyber	e. group of nations
6. hardware	f. warfare
7. defensive	g. laws
8. legal	h. device
9. armed	i. frameworks
10. plausible	j. assassination
11. nuclear	k. cyberattack
12. defensive	l. warship
13. allied	m. engineer
14. power	n. scenarios

2 Answer the questions:

a) What is the definition of cyberwarfare?

b) How many global cyberwarfare treatises exist today?

c) What was the origin of the power failure?

d) What do legal frameworks aim to do?

e) What is the name of the UN rules of cyber engagement?

3 Decide if the statements are true or false:

a) The wars of the future will be like the wars of our past.

b) The question of what exactly constitutes cyberwarfare is little debated.

c) Because war has been with us for so long, we have laws to deal with figuring out who should be held accountable for their actions in combat.

d) The current legal framework stays silent on hypothetical questions and countless others because there are no easy answers, and there are only two ways to make progress on these questions: peace or war.

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