ABSTRACT
The label “cyber peace” just seems inappropriate as a descriptor for the current era. one often finds practitioners who spend their life observing the tumult of cyber-enabled aggression in one domain or the other. In short, it is easy to see where each camp is coming from in arguing that the scope of cyber conflict is variably either towards restrained international interactions or chaotic proliferation of disruptive effects. Cybersecurity vendors and backbone operators have de facto power to blunt the effectiveness of state-prosecuted cyber operations—95% of which passes through commercial networks— simply via their direct control of the relevant infrastructure. For cyber conflict, the implications are several, but one bears particular mention. Blockchain and related technologies might provide the basis for greater international cooperation on cyber conflict issues. One might think of security considerations in cyberspace as pertaining to the architecture of the thing, both physically and logically as well as in informational terms.
