Active Response

Describes use of force in defense of property statutes

D. W. Barnes, "Judges and Legistlatures in 21st Century Torts: Integrating Cases and Statutes," presented at Association of American Law Schools Conference on Torts, New York, New York, 2003.

An excellent article on the application of laws to intrusion response (generally regarding physical intrusions of homes/businesses)

S. D. Mitchell and E. A. Banker, "Private Intrusion Response," Harvard Journal of Law and Technology, vol. 11, pp. 700-7

International law perspectives of information warfare

J. Barkham, "Information Warfare and International Law on the Use of Force," New York University Journal of International Law and Politics, vol. 34, pp. 57-113, 2001.

The first fully international treaty on cybercrime - the US is a signatory

Charter of the United Nations

Attorney General's Office asks Congress for more lenient statutes in regards to tracking network traffic along multiple phone networks (currently must get seperate warrants for each phone network)

Judge allows FBI to hack russian computer and install keylogger to trace attacks in US

Governments and critical infrastructures rely increasingly on networked computing technologies and are thus ever more vulnerable to cyber-attacks. International law is not fully formed on this issue, but the UN Charter and the laws of armed conflict establish certain baseline rules.

Cyber-attacks and international law
Gregory D Grove, Seymour E Goodman, Stephen J Lukasik. Survival London:Autumn 2000. Vol. 42, Iss. 3, p. 89-103 (15 pp.)
ISSN/ISBN: 00396338

A good guide to the many U.S. supreme court resources on the web