Questions guiding this research will include Why this is happening? Just What is happening? Who does this affect? and Where will this lead the United States in the future? How does this effect our ethical identification as "Americans"? Is this a moral way to conduct ourselves as a nation? Methodology will include a literature review, internet mining, and possibly interview with other researchers. I argue that cyber-warfare as pre-emptive strike should be overseen by a watchdog branch of the government in order to provide proper ethical review before involving the United States in cyber-war, its repercussions, and possible side effects on our economy, our liberty, and our freedoms. Boyle, Coombe and Coleman, with Castells will guide me in exploring this subject.
The President of the United States, Barack Obama, has recently been given tremendous powers to conduct cyber-warfare against percieved cyber-threats in a secret program involving the Pentagon and the National Security Administration, the CIA and the FBI. My research proposal will deal with this new paradigm in terms of neo-liberalism, liberty, and freedom of speech as interregated by the authors used in the class. A large cohort of government hackers will be mining the internet for data concerning international F/OSS hackers. The loose doctrine of pre-emptive strikes that is used to justify the secret drone strikes and assassinations taking place in Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen, and Iran, (anywhere the President deems a threat to United States security interests) will be employed to rationalize cyber-warfare of possibly nuclear proportions against any percieved enemy. I am interested in the ethical ramifications of such warfare.
Questions guiding this research will include Why this is happening? Just What is happening? Who does this affect? and Where will this lead the United States in the future? How does this effect our ethical identification as "Americans"? Is this a moral way to conduct ourselves as a nation? Methodology will include a literature review, internet mining, and possibly interview with other researchers. I argue that cyber-warfare as pre-emptive strike should be overseen by a watchdog branch of the government in order to provide proper ethical review before involving the United States in cyber-war, its repercussions, and possible side effects on our economy, our liberty, and our freedoms. Boyle, Coombe and Coleman, with Castells will guide me in exploring this subject.
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Lizeth Gutierrez
2/5/2013 07:11:46 am
Hey Dell,
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2/5/2013 08:04:54 am
This is a good start Dell. Can you expand your framework? You write:
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Rachel Sauerbier
2/10/2013 07:11:29 am
Hi Dell, this is an interesting project and I was not even aware that the government was participating in this kind of "cyber-warfare." Like Lizeth, I am interested in how you are going to apply the readings we've had in class to this issue and to also find out if there were other readings/frameworks that you were going to be drawing from. I know there was a book by Janczewski and Colarik from 2008 that talks about cyber-warfare and cyber-terrorism, but I am interested to hear what you will be drawing from as a theoretical platform. Overall, I am excited to see what your project will lead to!
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Jen O'Brien
2/10/2013 11:42:50 am
Hi Dell,
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Jorge
2/12/2013 02:34:25 am
Hiya Dell,
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Somava
2/12/2013 03:15:54 am
Hi Dell,
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Annita
2/12/2013 06:04:14 am
Hi Dell--I think this topic is very interesting, but I'm worried about source material. Trawling the internet for stuff on this can give you a LOT of info that will be difficult to parse through, considering so much is rumor and that the government actively would not want people to know about this. How are you going about understanding what exactly is going on?
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