The role of hackers, cyber activists and a number of characters more entrenched behind a computer is increasingly decisive in war, whether to simply get information to cause chaos and destruction in the enemy lines. In such situations increasingly frequent due to the vagueness of global legislation on the network, a group of experts from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization have decided to put them in a book list of objectives supported by the Center of Excellence in Cyber Organization of NATO states as potential targets for hackers, cyber activists and anyone attacker sponsored by states, which can use malicious code to end network databases and even directly attacking physical goals. At the request of NATO, more than 20 experts, in conjunction with the International Committee of the Red Cross and the U.S. Cyber-wrote called "Tallinn Manual of International Law Applicable to Cyber Threats" (CCD COE), which proposes a new set of rules about how to conduct cyber warfare. According to Russia Today newspaper, the manual aims to lay the foundation and guidelines on how to respond to attacks on sensitive computer networks, a growing concern for many states and especially by NATO.Michael Schmitt, a professor at the Naval War College U.S., met several soldiers and lawyers in the city of Tallinn, in the center to open cyber defense by NATO in the capital of Estonia, to write this book, which is not more than a series of suggestions, although its leaders seek to become more than recomendacones for the countries of the Atlantic Alliance. Meanwhile, Schmitt, editor of the manual, said that there are few formal laws on the use of cyber weapons called. "Everyone saw the Internet as the 'Wild West,'" said Schmitt. "What they forget is that international law applies to the 'cyber weapons' as applied to any other weapon", published by Spanish daily El Mundo.The CCD COE manual contains 95 "rules" in 302 pages, which were deployed from military behavior guides the St. Petersburg Declaration of 1868 and the Geneva Convention of 1949, although in this case-with sections related to concretely, in the network. Taking the above into account, a cyber attack can be defined as a cyber operation either attack or defense that can potentially cause injury or loss of life and damage to or destruction of objects. However, despite that civilians should not be legally attacked unaligned individuals such classification (such as "hacktivists") can be considered a legitimate target, either virtually or even direct attacks (which is what the U.S. searches) if they pose a threat. For its part, NATO experts define "hacktivist" as a private citizen on his own initiative engages in hacking activities for reasons ranging from ideological, political, religious, to the patriotic. And even if that cyber activist is working directly under military command, NATO believes that should be targeted.
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