Re: Estonia "Cyberwar" Just a single person?

[Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org>]

On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, Dragos Ruiu wrote:
> 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 :)

1. This student may have been an attacker, but he is by far not the 
attacker or even a small part of the attackers.

2. An individual can engage in battle against nation states. MVC said that 
we are going to fight organizations rather than countries, it's now as far 
as populations, unassociated groups of people, and individuals.

        Gadi.


> 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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