Malicious Life Podcast: Can You Bomb a Hacker?

This transcript examines how civilians and hacktivists have participated in cyber aspects of armed conflicts—from Russia-linked DDoS attacks on Georgia in 2008 using simple batch-script ICMP floods to Ukraine’s eVorog/ePPO systems for crowdsourcing targeting—and explores the unsettled international humanitarian law questions about when such actions make civilians lawful targets, citing real-world consequences and occasional kinetic responses to cyber operations.