Cyber Explosionage: A Case Study

The 21st century is the dawn of technology. There has been quite a remarkable rise in different forms of technology but what makes most of them common is its ability to access the cyber world. The people of this modernized society rely on the internet for several things, such as information, entertainment and as a connection to friends and loved ones. The exchange of private and personal information happens in a breeze, with one click, one uploads photographs, videos, bank information, addresses and numbers. Where does the information go? How secure is all this really? The researchers would like to reiterate that there’s an increasing threat that the people are exposed to because of the technological advancements created each day. Each individual

In this regard, the researchers will only discern if there’s a relationship between the principle of territorial sovereignty, the independent variable, and cyber espionage, which is the dependent variable. The researchers already established that there is no international law concerning cyber espionage, but the researchers will use the principle of territorial sovereignty as a possible ground that could address the concern on cyber espionage in the context of the US cyber espionage activities against

In addition, the researchers chose the cyber espionage activities of the United States of America against Brazil because it is one of the few cases wherein there was a substantive proof of a state conducting cyber espionage not only against its opponents but also against its allies. This is unusual since there are some instances that the targeted state can locate where the perpetrator is but cannot discern how much the involvement of the government is. But in this case, the government was proven to be involved in conducting cyber espionage activities against various countries and companies because of the revelations of Edward Snowden, a former contractor in the National Security Agency of the USA.42 With this revelation, the Brazilian President publicly condoned these actions in the United Nations. This events resulted to Brazil's cancellation of state visit and purchasing of materials from another country instead of the USA.43 These events strained the relationship between the United States and Brazil due to the cancellation of Brazil’s scheduled state visit to the US,