An account of the Estonian Internet War

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Gadi Evron [ge () linuxbox org]
Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 10:28 AM
To: David Farber
Subject: An account of the Estonian Internet War

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.

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