5.3 Espionage

Jack Goldsmith and a Berkman Center Cybersecurity Team

Purpose: To provide an understanding on the practice of secretly gathering information about a foreign government or industry. Espionage is not generally regulated by international law. This is important because it means that a great deal of threatening cyber behavior – basically, everything that comes under the heading of “cyber-exploitation – is not regulated by international law.

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