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The General Assembly,
Recognising that this esteemed body has not yet put restrictions on warfare as it is conducted over the interconnected technological medium, and the disastrous implications this could have on the lives of civilians in nations suffering from cyber warfare; and,
Noting the precedent set by this organ on safeguarding civilian lives in wartime situations;
Thus defines for the purposes of this resolution:
- "Cyber warfare" as any sort of hostile activity in which one entity aims to destroy or otherwise damage, partly or completely, another entity's infrastructure, with the activity being conducted entirely over either interconnected communication networks or otherwise interconnected technologies; and,
- "Internet" as the aforementioned interconnected communication networks or interconnected technological networks;
Expressly prohibits the targeting and conduct of cyber warfare against any systems which are utilised for basic needs by civilians, or otherwise leveraged by civilians within member-states to maintain acceptable standards of living.
Clarifies that examples of civilian systems which are disallowed to be targeted through cyber warfare are provided below but not limited to the same;
- financial systems, stock markets, or otherwise currency-based mechanisms hosted on the internets of member-states, due to the abject harm this would cause to civilians within the member-state afflicted,
- technological systems utilised by the natural disaster response agencies of any given member-state, due to the catastrophic potential for harm that such attacks could have through the slower response times of such agencies, which may then lead to unjust civilian deaths,
- technological systems utilised by the civilian healthcare sector of any given member-state, due to the catastrophic potential for harm that such attacks could have on the health of civilians in member-states.
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