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'Cyberwar' and Estonia's Panic Attack

Kevin Poulsen writes a very thoughtful, and insightful, article on Threat Level:

If you flip towards the back of this month's Wired magazine (15.09) you'll find an earnest two-page graphic depicting IP packets blasting off like ICBMs from Asia, arcing in a polar trajectory and slamming into six defenseless U.S. cities.

Yes, our friends across the hall from Wired News have succumbed to the sweet siren call of the cyberwar story. And they want us to know that It Could Happen Here.

Writer Joshua Davis was dispatched to the smoking ruins of Estonia to assess the damage wrought by last spring's DDoS attacks against the country's web, e-mail and DNS servers. Josh is a talented writer, and he returned with a story that offers some genuine insights -- a few, though, are likely unintentional.

posted by Fergie @ 8/22/2007 05:15:00 PM