Recommendation drafting: Cyber Security Act

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Description: RECOGNIZING that in today's world, cyberterrorism is a serious threat that is often neglected by governments.

REALIZING the raw destruction that can be brought upon an area both on a domestic and international level by a small group or even a single person using computers and other technology

BELIEVING that all countries need to protect themselves and the international community from the perils of the web and the malicious people using the internet as a disguise for crime.

APPLAUDING those who have already taken steps to deal with cyberterrorism and other internet based problems.

Thus,

DEFINES the terms

Cyberterrorism as a maliciously intended attack using computers or any computing devices to cause large or small scale destruction or disruption including but not limited to physical, economical, political, and infrastructural to any other person and/or organization and/or their property by a non-state actor

Cyberterrorist as one who commits an act of cyberterrorism

Non-State Actors as entities that participate or act in international relations or organizations with sufficient power to influence and cause a change even though they do not belong to any established institution of a state. Organizations or individuals contracted or hired by the state are considered state actors for the terms of this resolution.

MANDATES that member nations make cyberterrorism illegal in their nations

DIRECTS member nations to seek out any cyberterrorists in their jurisdiction and bring said cyberterrorists to justice

REQUIRES that member nations also make the supporting of cyberterrorists through any means, but most importantly monetary assistance, illegal

RECOMMENDS member nations to share information with both their allies and the rest of the international commmunity on known cyberterrorists so that other countries can pursue those cyberterrorists who may fall in their jurisdiction.

URGES member nations raise awareness of cyberterrorism and other internet related issues within their nations in an attempt to educate the public as to the dangers of the internet.

This look like a rather poor draft. Looking at the NS forum discussion thread, there is a chance this may be pulled from queue. If not, we should send an IFV recommending that nations vote against.

When deciding on how to vote on a resolution, we should always ask ourselves two questions: is the idea sensible, and is the execution acceptable? In this case, international legislation against cyberterrorism is definitely worthwhile - it not only presents a policy issue that poses international implications, but an issue - that is, terrorism - that has been condemned by the General Assembly previously. However, when we look at the execution, we see several irreconcilable flaws that necessitate serious revisions. For example, this resolution prevents the use of cyber-warfare by member nations, not only by terrorists, completely removing an essential form of legitimate warfare from the table with little justification. The resolution also looks punctuation dead in the eyes, and then sucker punches him. There are misplaced periods, commas, and in some cases, no punctuation at all. With the aforementioned in mind, I would suggest a vote AGAINST the resolution, but would consider legislation on the topic in the future worthwhile.

Thanks Scion. I have merged the comments by you and Aba (who apparently needs to take a look at the procedure for recommendations ) into a single recommendation that I sent out with the IFV.