Re: Estonia "Cyberwar" Just a single person?

[Dragos Ruiu <dr () kyx net>]

On Friday 25 January 2008 07:40, Dude VanWinkle wrote:
> I have been hearing quotes like:
>
> "The fact that a single student was able to trigger such events is
> particularly ominous when you consider just how many potential
> flashpoints exist between various countries all over the world. The
> DoS attack against Estonia is an excellent example of how a
> cyberattack carried out by a 20-year-old student in response to
> real-life events further exacerbated an existing problem between two
> nations."
>
>
> Gadi, you were involved in investigating this, was it really just one
> student?
>
> -JP

It's an interesting assymetric time, when a student can take on a 
nation-state, and win! (for the short term at least :)

cheers,
--dr

P.S. no doubt that student will be punished, probably too much so,
for in the end, isn't the real villain the planning and network design 
that let that poor state of networking affairs and lack of redundancy
or reliability in important functions/sites be toppled like a ramshackle 
house of cards?
 
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