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According to the article, there are cyber wars happened in the state and private networks. In the following sections, two discussions will be held.

1) Re-thinking about the definition of war

Like the security expert Bruce Schneier mentioned it is hard to define and describe the cyber war. Critical infrastructure, state and private networks data will be spied and stolen during the cyber war. What have happened in the virtual war is totally different with the "real war". In reality, people suffered from various kind of physically and mentally tortured. For example, like rape, get shot or suffferd mentally illness. They may even die during the war. The lost and damage in reality war time and virtual war are completely different. From the differences, can the cyber war still claim as "war"?
This re-thinking is inspired by one of our classmates presentation question: If a person has been raped in the matrix world, does it count as rape?

The damage caused in cyber war would indirectly harm the people in reality. Then does it still count as war? It is worthwhile for people to re-think it!

2) Regulations and morality

In the journal, they claimed that they have to protect the state and private networks away from the terrorist and cyber criminal. In order to defend themselves from the invasion, they proposed to establish the new cyber protection system. However, are they really that harmful to public? Who are the biggest group being influenced? In a skeptical POV, public definitely vote for yes to pass the rules when they heard the terms like "terrorist" and "criminal". For me, I think the real victims are the state and private "companies" being threatened. They may suffer great or enormous economic lost when the "hackers" reveal their secrets or something that has done and against the public. If the state and private entrepreneurs are that skeptical, why do we have to protect them? And who should be given power to enact the law and system?

"Stealing" data from the the public is not moral as it harms the majority, according to the utilitarianism. Then how about the "big" company that force their customers to agree all the privacy settings which later sell the data to another company. Is it moral as well?

To conclude, no matter how virtual war happens, it does influence the reality. It is hard to select the specific one to have right for execution. There are always different standards to measure. We really cant determine who is the most suitable one to be the "one" in reality and virtual reality. It is so pity that people are educated to measure things with principle of duality and class systems.

Reference:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12768617