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The war in the ether

August 12, 2008 - 3:47 pm - by Richard Fernandez
Cannoneer No. 4
2008-08-13 14:03:33

Much like in the attacks against Estonia, several Russian blogs, forums, and websites are spreading a Microsoft Windows batch script that is designed to attack Georgian websites. Basically people are taking matters into their own hands and asking others to join in by continually sending ICMP traffic via the ‘ping’ command to several Georgian websites, of which the vast majority are government.

Plausibly deniable CNA by RBN mercenaries and patriotic Russian netizens.

Why can’t Americans do this?

Georgian Attacks: Remember Estonia?