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Russia Accused of Cyber-War Against Estonia
earthlingpink writes about the ongoing DDoSing of Estonia. The Guardian is reporting that Russia stands accused of engaging in a three-week-long series of cyber-attacks. Government, banking, and media websites have been targeted. It is unclear whether the attacks are sanctioned or initiated by the Russian Government, but Estonian authorities believe that to be the case. NATO has sent security experts to Tallinn to help beef up defenses. The Estonian defense minister said, "At present, NATO does not define cyber-attacks as a clear military action. This means that the provisions of... collective self-defense, will not automatically be extended to the attacked country... this matter needs to be resolved in the near future."
In Soviet Russia, government cyber-attacks you.
As an American-Estonian (1/3 Estonian on my Mother's side), I can confirm that Russia has been attacking my programming project, making it impossible to debug. And THAT boss is why the project isn't done yet! What can I do when all of Russia is against me?
Where did I hear about this attack? Uh.. slashd... an on-line news source specializing in technical news of course!
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Wow, the naïvete of Slashdot moderators continues to amaze me. This is perhaps the most obvious troll I have ever seen(because the quote is a complete fabrication and feminism is fairly unpopular on Slashdot), obviously posted in a hurry to get first post, and it's moderated Insightful?
And do we really want our tax money buying cyber prostitutes to give our cyber soldiers computer viruses?
That's why in Hunt for Red October, Sean Connery says "ping -c 1 sub.navy.mil" (or simply "One ping only")
That joke worked so well in my head :-(
i would like to open this nationalistic chest thumping thread with an exhortation from the rest of us here at slashdot: please be extremely hysterical and hot-headed and entertaining
please be accusing each other's mothers of various acts of bestiality and extreme promiscuity, and do not go lightly on the creative threats of violence, including skewering the eyes with pokers, and the twisting of testicles in various farm machinery. proper english grammar is optional, in fact, it is better if your english grammar is nonexistent
ok, my popcorn is ready, any russian want to respond to the above estonian?
go!
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Shut the fuck up bitch! And get me a beer!
StoneCypher is Full of BS
Lets hope they've upped their defences since then.