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.'"

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Re:Government-orchestrated and encouraged

[Cyberax]

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?