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Beyond Firewalls — Internet Militarization

Posted by timothy on from the warm-up-the-euphemism-bandier dept.

angry tapir writes "One of the discussions at the Source Boston Security Showcase has been the militarization of the Internet. Governments looking to silence critics and stymie opposition have added DDOS attacks to their censoring methods, according to Jose Nazario, senior security researcher at Arbor Networks, with international political situations spawning DDOS attacks."

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  1. Re:Militarization? by Chrisq · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Surprisingly I think not always, it could depend where it is in the city. I have spoken to people who live in cities with gang-land areas who see attacks (drive by shootings, houses burned out, etc.) as though it was talking about somewhere the other side of the world. If one gang fired a mortar at another's stronghold this probably would not worry them too much.