Legal Consequences Of a Cyber Attack

The World

Is it legal to use cyber technology to attack another country?

Host Aaron Schachter speaks with law professor and retired general Charles Dunlap about the international legal ramifications of the US launching cyber attacks against another country, as the New York Times reports has been done by the US against Iran.

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