Beating Around The Bush

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The official website of the United Nations was hacked. Though our reporters were assured that the website had Pentagon level security, and that there was no one on the inside who could have done this, an as yet unidentified group is held responsible. This only goes to show the poor security afforded by the United States to its own defence organization.
The website code was mutilated to Mandarin and later Ukrainian. The delegate of Democratic People's Republic of Korea spoke extensively upon how it is not their belief that Ukraine was involved, stating that “Hackers are trying to lead us astray”. It is rather saddening as when asked how the delegate was so certain of the fact, the only response was how it’s a classic move of hackers to shift blame. The delegate of China ironically commented that they wished all of committee would work together in harmony to solve this crisis. The delegate of India quickly attempted to blame the Russian Federation, upon the false assumption that they were involved in the affair. However, the delegate was swiftly set to rights.
An update was later received that the IP address had been traced to have US origin, about which President Donald Trump immediately tweeted saying
“Allegations made about IP addresses are false! FAKE NEWS! SO SAD! ”.
Finances for the attack have also been traced to a server from the Republic of Korea. The delegate of Germany held that the hacks were possibly not from the US, but finances could have come from Republic Of Korea . Most delegates maintained that they would merely await instructions from their governments. The delegate of the US refused to comment.
The nations of the world who have assembled within the Disarmament International Security  to discuss and come to a consensus upon the agenda “Defining and Mitigating Cyber Terrorism and Cyber warfare” seem only keen to play a blame game with not one member nation swiftly detailing any form of action to take, nor do they seem likely to. The delegates hardly seem ready to acknowledge that actions must even be taken at once. The first twenty minutes after committee was informed of the crisis was spent pointing fingers and making baseless accusations. The nations of Ukraine and the Republic of Korea were placed under intense scrutiny, merely for superficial ties to the crisis. It may interest our readers that though the US also had such ties, they were ironically not placed under suspicion, despite their involvement in various cyber attacks in the past.
The discussion of ‘Working paper 2.0’, which is a course of action the members of the DISEC are considering, lent itself to another problem- the constant discussion of key definitions and terms that should have been established much earlier. They are highly pertinent to the agenda and it is honestly shocking how there is still confusion about them. It is truly disappointing how this committee has functioned in its time of crisis.
The crisis was not resolved, and we must meditate on what the DISEC intends to do. The crisis opens channels of debate about the effects of incidents of cyber vandalism and terrorism upon the nations of the world, and the subsequent threats to privacy and the public. 


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