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The Real Impact of the Estonian Cyberattack
An anonymous reader writes "News.com offers up an interview with Arbor Networks' senior security researcher Jose Nazario. He takes stock of the denial-of-service attack against the Baltic nation of Estonia, and considers the somewhat disturbing wider implications from the event. 'You look around the globe, and there's basically no limit to the amount of skirmishes between well-connected countries that could get incredibly emotional for the population at large. In this case, it has disrupted the Estonian government's ability to work online, it has disrupted a lot of its resources and attention. In that respect, it's been effective. It hasn't brought the government to a crippling halt, but has essentially been effective as a protest tool. People will probably look at this and say, That works. I think we're going to continue to do this kind of thing. Depending on the target within the government, it could be very visible, or it could not be very visible.'"
Georgia's wines were CRAP. 90% of it was counterfeit made from 'wine-containing liquids' (the rest 10% was really good, though). The same goes for Polish meat.
Of course, decision to 'notice' that was political.
Oh, ans as we speak about global economics - why can't Poland sell their meat to other countries. Maybe because it substandard?
Frankly, because of stuff like this, we need to be prepared to use a variation of the old Internet Death Sentence. Hostile nations could be removed from the routing tables (i.e. we don't route traffic to or from them). With international cooperation attacks like this *could* be stopped dead in their tracks, with the side benefit that the offending nation would have a high priority desire to clean up the attacks.
Just another tool you need to keep in your toolbelt.
What 'audit'? Have auditors checked all Polish farms?
Russia offered Poland to create mixed auditor teams to certify each farm in Poland. Poland refused.
And I repeat my question: why can't Poland export meat, say, to Germany or France?
During WW2 Estonia was German ally. German SS and police units, with Estonian auxiliaries, massacred the Jews of Estonia and others. They established concentration camps where they burned and gunned down Latvians, Belarussians, Ukrainians,Russians and Jews. _These_days_ Estonian govermnent recognize Latvian waffen SS divisions as heroes and threaten to destroy monumets made to commemorate the victory over fascism.