According to The Telegraph, Britain’s Attorney General Suella Braveman will argue in a speech to Chatham House today that international law applies equally to equally in the cyber world as in the real world, where the principle of “non-intervention” in another country’s affairs allows states to take defensive countermeasures. The news comes off the back of Russia’s real-world and cyber-warfare activity in the Ukraine conflict. According to the Attorney General, she states could legally introduce sanctions as well as cyber countermeasures, provided they were “proportionate” to the unlawful attack by a hostile state. “International law matters in cyberspace because if we don’t shape the rules here if we don’t have a clear framework to counter hostile activity in cyberspace, and if we don’t get cyber security right, the effects will be likely to be felt more often and in hugely disruptive ways by ordinary people,” she said.
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