'Cyberwar' and Estonia's Panic Attack

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Kevin Poulsen writes a very thoughtful, and insightful, article
on Threat Level:

[snip]

f you flip towards the back of this month's Wired magazine (15.09) you'll
find an earnest two-page graphic depicting IP packets blasting off like
ICBMs from Asia, arcing in a polar trajectory and slamming into six
defenseless U.S. cities.

Yes, our friends across the hall from Wired News have succumbed to the
sweet siren call of the cyberwar story. And they want us to know that It
Could Happen Here.

Writer Joshua Davis was dispatched to the smoking ruins of Estonia to
assess the damage wrought by last spring's DDoS attacks against the
country's web, e-mail and DNS servers. Josh is a talented writer, and he
returned with a story that offers some genuine insights -- a few, though,
are likely unintentional.

[snip]

More:
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/08/cyber-war-and-e.html

- - ferg


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"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg(at)netzero.net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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