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Creating Rules of War for Cyberspace

2015-12-17 14:00:00| TechNewsWorld

The idea of a "Cyber Geneva Convention" has gained steam in the last five years. Based on the original Geneva Convention, it would ensure that certain types of attacks and specific targets would remain off-limits in a cyberwar. The concept of rules dictating what shouldn't be allowed in war came about after Henry Dunant visited wounded soldiers during the Second Italian War of Unification.

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The celestial Seychelles to soar into cyberspace as 'Free WiFi Nation'

2015-12-04 02:45:56| Wireless - Topix.net

Vacationers in the sundrenched, soft sand, celestial paradise of the Seychelles will soon be able to stayed hooked up to the Internet while searching for sea shells or hitting the beach thanks to a proposal by Internet provider Kokonet that wants to make Seychelles "A Free Wi-Fi Nation." The story, which broke on eturbonews today Dec. 3, says that with the aim of making a bigger impact on the Seychelles Brand of tourism and with the intent of helping to drive the tourism industry further, Kokonet wants to get the new initiative launched during the Seychelles Tourism Board's marketing meeting at the end of the year, scheduled to be held on December 15, 2015 at the Kempinski Seychelles Resort.

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Spotlight: China backs cooperation in cyberspace, opposes hegemony: official

2015-06-07 08:34:53| Agriculture - Topix.net

HAVANA/WASHINGTON, June 6 -- China is ready to cooperate with other countries to achieve a safe, cooperative, open and peaceful cyberspace, a Chinese official said here Saturday. Meanwhile, China respects sovereignty and opposes hegemony in cyberspace, said Li Tao, an official from the Cyberspace Administration of China , at the International Conference on New Scenarios of Political Communication in the Digital Realm being held in the Cuban capital.

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The Net: From Cyberspace to Everyplace

2014-09-16 15:12:04| Wireless - Topix.net

In Snow Crash , a science fiction novel published in 1992, Neal Stephenson envisioned a future in which people lived in a bleak, grim physical world, but it was possible for them to "jack in" through a computer network to the Metaverse, a virtual cyberworld that was much more dramatic and glamorous than the "real" world. As it turned out, online technology developed in a different direction than Stephenson imagined.

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