Cyberwar! The opening salvo in a new era in international relations

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The Guardian: A three-week wave of massive cyber-attacks on the small Baltic country of Estonia, the first known incidence of such an assault on a state, is causing alarm across the western alliance, with Nato urgently examining the offensive and its implications...

― mitya, Thursday, 17 May 2007 13:55 (nineteen years ago)

Okay, yes, I used a bombastic title, but I do think that this is only the beginning of bigger problems we'll be seeing over the coming decade. Anyone else think so?

― mitya, Thursday, 17 May 2007 13:55 (nineteen years ago)

E-TERROR

― blueski, Thursday, 17 May 2007 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

I blame the internet.

― Neil S, Thursday, 17 May 2007 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.cse.lehigh.edu/~lopresti/Courses/2006-07/CSE097/Images/the%2520net.jpg

― ghost rider, Thursday, 17 May 2007 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

if only there were a lolcat that could sum up my feelings about this

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 17 May 2007 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

I'm all for Tallinnites moving a statue of a soviet draftee fifty meters to the left or whatever, but it's kind of disingenuous of the media to continue reporting this with Estonia as the center of the story. It's a bunch of fucking asshole Russian punks (surprise) victimizing a tiny little country that just happens not to appreciate its big fuckoff asshole imperialist neighbor quite so much as it used to have to pretend it did.

Oh, right, don't say bad shit about russia, they'll break your internet and put polonium in your drink. And then Putin will fuck your kids.

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 17 May 2007 14:03 (nineteen years ago)

And BTW this is on the level of basically the entire estonian government not being able to do any work for several days, lolcat.jpg "government doesn't do any work anyway"

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 17 May 2007 14:05 (nineteen years ago)

i has the estonia
noooooo they be stealin my the estonia

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 17 May 2007 14:07 (nineteen years ago)

Estonian officials say that one of the masterminds of the cyber-campaign, identified from his online name, is connected to the Russian security service. A 19-year-old was arrested in Tallinn at the weekend for his alleged involvement.

I really hope he's a Bond-ish rake, or at least stylishly dressed. E-Terror should be sexy. Inconveniences in Estonia is not sexy.

― Greist, Thursday, 17 May 2007 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/e22.gif

note clever use of holocaust reference and asterisk to googleproof "fucking Estonian" catchphrase

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 17 May 2007 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

there used to be a punk band from lincoln, ne called the zyklon bees. they changed their name when it got too hard to book gigs. nice kids though.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 17 May 2007 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

now they are russian hackkkers

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 17 May 2007 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

Does anyone remember the electronic disobedience thing for Chiapas in 1995?

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Thursday, 17 May 2007 17:43 (nineteen years ago)

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