Exploding pagers in Lebanon underscore the fact that the battlefield is rapidly coming to a supermarket near you. And that you probably can’t trust your supply chain.
There is plenty of law about when you can fight and how you can fight, both treaty and customary. For instance, "Mary Ellen O’Connell, a professor of law and international peace studies at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, said booby-traps are banned under international law. "Weaponizing an object used by civilians is strictly prohibited,” she said." https://finance.yahoo.com/news/gold-apollo-says-pagers-exploded-061234443.html.
Really great analysis here Sean. I think you’ve drawn the dots between the pager issue and wider IoT concerns that have always been in the background but little thought about outside obscure national security circles. Firms like Altana AI, which are involved in know-your-supplier issues, could benefit as, of course, could corporate lawyers!
Thanks y’all! As strategic tensions increase all national security issues turn into corporate issues quickly. I was surprised how many times I wrote “China” in a piece about Israel and Hezbollah but that’s the lens through which politics and the law will be turned on companies
There is plenty of law about when you can fight and how you can fight, both treaty and customary. For instance, "Mary Ellen O’Connell, a professor of law and international peace studies at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, said booby-traps are banned under international law. "Weaponizing an object used by civilians is strictly prohibited,” she said." https://finance.yahoo.com/news/gold-apollo-says-pagers-exploded-061234443.html.
Really great analysis here Sean. I think you’ve drawn the dots between the pager issue and wider IoT concerns that have always been in the background but little thought about outside obscure national security circles. Firms like Altana AI, which are involved in know-your-supplier issues, could benefit as, of course, could corporate lawyers!
Thanks y’all! As strategic tensions increase all national security issues turn into corporate issues quickly. I was surprised how many times I wrote “China” in a piece about Israel and Hezbollah but that’s the lens through which politics and the law will be turned on companies
International Law is only binding on the signatories and those they capture.
Second reading comments:
Have groups like Hamas and Hezbollah ever had the same concepts of the battlefield and combatants versus civilians, as people in the western world?