Tournament: UNLV | Round: 1 | Opponent: Sam Barlow EL | Judge: Nigel Taylor-Ward
Cybersecurity in space isn’t sufficient - commercialization is a target of cyber attacks. Fidler ‘18
Fidler, D. P. (2018, April 3). Cybersecurity and the New Era of Space Activities. Council on Foreign Relations. Retrieved December 26, 2021, from https://www.cfr.org/report/cybersecurity-and-new-era-space-activities#chapter-title-0-1 David P. Fidler is senior fellow for global health and cybersecurity at the Council on Foreign Relations. He is an expert in international law, cybersecurity, national security, terrorism, counterinsurgency, international trade, biosecurity, and global health.
Outer space has been a national security
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yet such interference frequently occurs.
It’s especially bad in Low earth orbit (LEO)
Verco, E. (2021). Anu jolt vol 2 issue 2 - LS 20211207. https://anujolt.org/article/30203.pdf. Retrieved February 4, 2022, from https://anujolt.org/article/30203.pdf EDWARD VERCO is a law graduate of the University of Adelaide and a lawyer admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of South Australia. He is currently employed as a Contracts Management Associate at Lockheed Martin Australia, and his research areas of interest include regulation in the space and cybersecurity sectors, as well as the defence industry in general.
The cybersecurity of satellites requires
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regime of cybersecurity regulation for satellites.
The time to act is now - space privatization makes cyber attacks more dangerous and likely. Khalili 9/18/21
Khalili, J. (2021, September 18). Kamikaze satellites and Shuttles Adrift: Why Cyberattacks are a major threat to humanity's ambitions in space. TechRadar. Retrieved December 26, 2021, from https://www.techradar.com/news/kamikaze-satellites-and-shuttles-adrift-why-cyberattacks-are-a-major-threat-to-our-ambitions-in-space
No matter how well space infrastructure
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if only to prove that it’s possible.
Cyberattacks spiral to all-out nuclear conflict.
Klare 19 Michael; November 2019; Professor emeritus of peace and world security studies at Hampshire College; “Cyber Battles, Nuclear Outcomes? Dangerous New Pathways to Escalation,” Arms Control Association, https://www.armscontrol.org/act/2019-11/features/cyber-battles-nuclear-outcomes-dangerous-new-pathways-escalation
Yet another pathway to escalation
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major conflict and possibly nuclear war.”14
Nuke war causes extinction AND outweighs other existential risks
PND 16. internally citing Zbigniew Brzezinski, Council of Foreign Relations and former national security adviser to President Carter, Toon and Robock’s 2012 study on nuclear winter in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Gareth Evans’ International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament Report, Congressional EMP studies, studies on nuclear winter by Seth Baum of the Global Catastrophic Risk Institute and Martin Hellman of Stanford University, and U.S. and Russian former Defense Secretaries and former heads of nuclear missile forces, brief submitted to the United Nations General Assembly, Open-Ended Working Group on nuclear risks. A/AC.286/NGO/13. 05-03-2016. http://www.reachingcriticalwill.org/images/documents/Disarmament-fora/OEWG/2016/Documents/NGO13.pdf
Consequences human survival 12. Even if
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post-nuclear results for Hiroshima and Nagasaki as well.