Abstract
My aim in the paper is to reflect on a very narrow question: under what conditions might a cyber attack provide a just cause for war? I begin by articulating what makes for a just cause, briefly address the problem of attribution, and then discuss three broad categories of cyberattck: those that clearly do not satisfy the just cause requirement, those that clearly do satisfy the just cause requirement, and three ambiguous cases -- the destruction of property, the emplacement of logic bombs, and the failure to prevent cyberattacks. My conclusions are exploratory and suggestive rather than definitive, partly by virtue of the extreme paucity of literature on the moral assessment of cyberwar.
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