Topic: Future of Cyber Warfare
Country: Bangladesh
Delegate Name: Emma Lincoln
School: Forest Hills Northern High School
Topic page: background guide and all position papers All Bangladesh position papers GLIMUN 2012 committees
Our current world relies on technology for just about everything. The government relies on using the internet and other computer programs to store information and also to receive and send coded messages. This was safe at one time, until enemies started to find ways inside. Enemies now have another way to attack and to create more advantages for themselves. There are countless ways that people use to create destruction when sending viruses and this creates a very unsafe online world. The government has become too reliant on this online world to hold all of their codes and tactics and they have been paying the price. Cyber warfare has become so dangerous and common that it is almost worse than real physical attack.
The most difficult factor of cyber warfare is trying to figure out who is at fault. Many governmental and non-governmental websites have been hacked and the victimized nations have been struggling with knowing who to blame. Bangladesh has been involved in an incident such as this. Between the years 2001 and 2011, nearly 1,000 Bangladeshi were killed at the borders between India and Bangladesh. Indian officials had argued that the border was misused by illicit traders and also for illegal migration. To top it all off, the deaths caused by India’s Border Security Forces (BSF) were caused by a “cyber war.” With the issue of the border being misused, there was an estrangement between Bangladesh and India. In retaliation to the deaths issued by the BSF, a group that termed itself the “Bangladesh Cyber Army” resorted to using cyber warfare to get back at India. They defaced over 5,000 Indian websites including the website for India’s Border Security Forces. When the government of Bangladesh was asked to comment on the issue, they condemned the Bangladesh Cyber Army and claimed to have no part in hacking into any of the Indian websites.
In regards to the future of cyber warfare, Bangladesh believes it is not entirely in the UN’s control. The UN should come up with a way to clearly define what a cyber-attack really is. It is the UN’s responsibility to develop a plan for the punishment of cyber hackers, whether the hacking be issued by the government of the country or not.
