Russia kinda-sorta owns up to Estonia cyberwar

Two things...: 1. Anything that has military, economic or administrative significance becomes fair game in shooting wars, therefore, it doesn't surprize me that countries would be prepared to wage cyber-warfare.

2. The alleged admission to the DDoS attacks covered in the story is probably designed to inform Russia's strategic foes about Russian capability in this area. This is quite similar to the anti-satellite tests conducted by China a year and a half ago or so.

I'd say Russia DDoS-ing Estonia is par-for-the-course in the Information Age.; Posted by: khawaja.umar.farooq@... Posted on: 03/09/09 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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