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Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 20:04:41 +0100 From: n3td3v <xploitable@...il.com> To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk Subject: Re: An account of the Estonian Internet War On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 3:27 PM, Gadi Evron <ge@...uxbox.org> wrote: > About a year ago after coming back from Estonia I promised I'd send in an > account of the Estonian "war". The postmortem analysis and recommendations I > later wrote for the Estonian CERT are not yet public. > > A few months ago I wrote an article for the Georgetown Journal of > International Affairs, covering the story of what happened there, in depth. > The journal owns the copyright so I had no way of sending that along either. > I wasn't about to email saying "go buy a copy". > > Mostly silly articles kept popping up with misguided to wrong information > about what happened in Estonia, and when an Estonian student was arrested > for participating, some in our community even jumped up to say "it was just > some student". Ridiculous. > > This is the "war" that made politicians aware of cyber security and entire > countries scared, NATO to "respond" and the US to send in "help". It > deserved a better understanding for that alone, whatever actually happened > there. > > I was there to help, but I just deliver the account. The heroes of the story > are the Estonian ISP and banking security professionals and the CERT (Hillar > Aarelaid and Aivar Jaakson). > > Apparently the Journal made my article available in PDF form by a third > party: > > Battling Botnets and Online Mobs > Estonia's Defense Efforts during the Internet War > > URL: http://www.ciaonet.org/journals/gjia/v9i1/0000699.pdf > > It is not technical, I hope you find it useful. > > Gadi Evron. > Cyberflexing: A response to Mark Seiden http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2008-April/061450.html All the best, n3td3v _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
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