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Re: Slate Podcast on Estonian DOS atatck

  • From: Per Heldal
  • Date: Fri May 25 09:53:52 2007 
On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 10:06 -0700, Merike Kaeo wrote:
> First of it's kind that it targeted a country.

Countries and govt infrastructure has been under attack before. As an
example; The various parties in the Balkan conflict (former Yugoslavia)
were fighting their "cyber-wars" back in the 90s. Attacks were of course
at a different scale as national/regional ISPs at the time only had a
few k of transit capacity. 


//per