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CLC#004: And Reprisal

Cyber Lunarium Commission #004: And Reprisal The Cyber Lunarium Commission was established to propose novel approaches to United States cyber strategy grounded in technical and operational realities. The commissioners of the CLC “moonlight” in cyber policy, drawing upon their experiences in government, military, industry, and academia.   The Cyber Lunarium Commission can be reached at cyberlunarium@gmail.com and followed at @CyberLunarium .  We welcome questions and feedback about our work. --- This fourth and final post in the Cyber Lunarium’s cyber letter of marque (CLoM) series explores some of the most controversial ideas thus far. Building upon prior discussion of the CLoM concept in CLC#001 , the application of CLoMs to counter-ISIL cyber operations in CLC#002 , and the CLoM-based IoT access-as-a-service ideas in CLC#003 , in this post the Cyber Lunarium explores reprisal operations. These concepts may be seen as norms violating, escalatory, and otherwise controversial - they

CLC#003: IoT Access-as-a-Service

Cyber Lunarium Commission #003:  IoT Access-as-a-Service The Cyber Lunarium Commission was established to propose novel approaches to United States cyber strategy grounded in technical and operational realities. The commissioners of the CLC “moonlight” in cyber policy, drawing upon their experiences in government, military, industry, and academia.   The Cyber Lunarium Commission can be reached at cyberlunarium@gmail.com and followed at @CyberLunarium .  We welcome questions and feedback about our work. --- In CLC#001 , the Cyber Lunarium Commission introduced cyber letters of marque (CLoM), and in CLC#002 explored the application of these tools to counter-ISIL cyber operations. This publication, CLC#003, will further expand upon the “access-as-a-service” (AaaS) concept discussed in these previous publications, applying it to the challenges of acquiring and managing access to internet of things (IoT) devices (i.e., home routers, webcams, smart lightbulbs, etc). The IoT Tax The prolif