Re: 10 easy steps to writing the scariest cyberwarfare article ever

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh () hserus net>
Date: April 14, 2009 9:46:55 PM EDT
To: David Farber <dave () farber net>, abe () oyvay nu
Subject: Re: [IP] Re:   10 easy steps to writing the scariest  
cyberwarfare article ever

I wouldnt build it up as a doomsday but I certainly wouldnt deprecate  
the
threat either, or dismiss it as 'cyberpranks by a political party's  
youth
organization'.
Estonia survived because of two things - it is a small country with a  
very
proactive CERT and tightly knit local information security  
coordination, as
well as the fact that there was a RIPE meeting ongoing at Tallinn around
then ..
This effectively meant that several admins of third party networks  
that'd
have to be contacted to mitigate the organized DDoS attacks were all  
there,
in the same hotel / conference rooms.  It was what I'd call a very ideal
situation for anybody looking to mitigate a DDoS headed their way.

If that happened to just about any other country in the world (scale  
is not
a problem - botnets can scale just about infinitely) you'd have seen an
actual disaster.

        srs

David Farber [14/04/09 18:31 -0400]:
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> From: Abe Singer <abe () oyvay nu>
> Date: April 14, 2009 5:00:25 PM EDT
> To: David Farber <dave () farber net>
> Subject: Re: [IP] 10 easy steps to writing the scariest  
> cyberwarfare  article ever
>
> For IP, if you wish...
>
> Even the "riots" in Estonia seemed to hyped as must as the online
> siege.  I was in Tallinn the evening that it happened, having dinner
> in a restaurant just a few blocks away.  I didn't even know a "riot"
> had happened until the next day when I saw it in the news.  From  
> what I
> could tell, the actual rioting was mostly a handful of teenage  
> hooligans
> who used the protests as an excuse to break some store windows.
>
> Regardless, the article *is* right on target.
>
> On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 07:57:01AM -0400, David Farber wrote:
> > 2. Begin the story in Estonia, with a reference to its 2007 attacks;
> > make sure to play up the “E-stonia” tune and how the entire country
> > was under online siege for a month (never mention that rioting in the
> > Estonian streets was much more devastating and that the actual online
> > siege lasted for twenty minutes at best). Setting the story in  
> > Estonia
> > would also help to play up the Soviet threat that never really left
> > the country. Blame NATO's impotence, praise Skype's genius, quote  
> > non-
> > existent local Web entrepreneurs who lost all their savings in the
> > 2007cyber-attacks.
>
>
>
>
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