Re: An account of the Estonian Internet War

[n3td3v <xploitable () gmail com>]

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 3:27 PM, Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org> wrote:
> About a year ago after coming back from Estonia I promised I'd send in an
> account of the Estonian "war". The postmortem analysis and recommendations I
> later wrote for the Estonian CERT are not yet public.
>
> A few months ago I wrote an article for the Georgetown Journal of
> International Affairs, covering the story of what happened there, in depth.
> The journal owns the copyright so I had no way of sending that along either.
> I wasn't about to email saying "go buy a copy".
>
> Mostly silly articles kept popping up with misguided to wrong information
> about what happened in Estonia, and when an Estonian student was arrested
> for participating, some in our community even jumped up to say "it was just
> some student". Ridiculous.
>
> This is the "war" that made politicians aware of cyber security and entire
> countries scared, NATO to "respond" and the US to send in "help". It
> deserved a better understanding for that alone, whatever actually happened
> there.
>
> I was there to help, but I just deliver the account. The heroes of the story
> are the Estonian ISP and banking security professionals and the CERT (Hillar
> Aarelaid and Aivar Jaakson).
>
> Apparently the Journal made my article available in PDF form by a third
> party:
>
> Battling Botnets and Online Mobs
> Estonia's Defense Efforts during the Internet War
>
> URL: http://www.ciaonet.org/journals/gjia/v9i1/0000699.pdf
>
> It is not technical, I hope you find it useful.
>
> Gadi Evron.

Cyberflexing: A response to Mark Seiden

http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2008-April/061450.html

All the best,

n3td3v

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