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2007-05-20 Europe

Cyber Assaults on Estonia Typify a New Battle Tactic

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Posted by Steve White 2007-05-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [13 views ] Top

#1 Two of the major 'bot empires are controlled from Russia.

Posted by mojo">mojo 2007-05-20 00:46|| 2007-05-20 00:46|| Front Page Top

#2 Russia playing Chess, and I may add, good players. Objective noted.
Bless Eastonia.

Posted by newc">newc 2007-05-20 02:24|| 2007-05-20 02:24|| Front Page Top

#3 This is an act of war and should be named as such. But then someone might feel obligated to do something. Here is a start: Identify as many perps as possible and send in the wet teams to disappear them. There have to be consequences.

Posted by Excalibur 2007-05-20 07:19|| 2007-05-20 07:19|| Front Page Top

#4 Solution: block all traffic originating from Russia.

This sort of abuse of the internet is really bad. We created this marvelous thing, and all other people can think of is how to ruin it.

Posted by gromky 2007-05-20 08:06|| 2007-05-20 08:06|| Front Page Top

#5 Andrei, you've lost another Siberian pipeline?

Posted by Dr. Jeffrey Pelt 2007-05-20 08:18|| 2007-05-20 08:18|| Front Page Top

#6 I love a good 'Red October' reference in the morning, lol!

Posted by Raj 2007-05-20 09:26|| 2007-05-20 09:26|| Front Page Top

#7 It was actually a pretty stoopid thing to do, motivated by Dire Revenge™, rather than by compelling national interest. It's a weapon that's best used by surprise, and they threw that away.

Unless the intel world has gone dumber than dirt since I left it, swarms of busy, busy people in at least four and probably eight countries are now poring over piles of logs and recordings of... ummm... things, analyzing the weapon used and finding how to either defeat it or turn it against its owners.

Really dumb move by the Russers. And dumb even if the budget for the busy, busy people has been diverted to global warming research. The Russers don't know if it has, any more than I do.

Posted by Fred 2007-05-20 09:30|| 2007-05-20 09:30|| Front Page Top

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