http://blurringborders.com/2008/08/11/cyberwar-in-georgia-is-it-war-is-cloud-government-the-future/ Tech Policy, Development and World Affairs Thu, 10 Nov 2011 14:26:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 http://blurringborders.com/2008/08/11/cyberwar-in-georgia-is-it-war-is-cloud-government-the-future/comment-page-1/#comment-73 Global Voices Advocacy » Internet and South Ossetia Crisis Sat, 16 Aug 2008 22:45:59 +0000 http://kevindonovan.wordpress.com/?p=235#comment-73 [...] Blurring borders blog has a point on it: A new type of narrative is taking hold among the coverage of the military conflict between Russia and Georgia. A number of sites are writing about the “cyberwarfare” being waged by pro-Russian forces against the Georgian government. It seems that, like Estonia a year ago, entities evoking the ire of Russia must be forced to combat widespread botnet-based DDoS attacks. I think there is little doubt that such occurrences will be increasingly part of real-world conflicts, but people are rushing into framing this as warfare, which will only lead to military-based reactions - something I fear. [...] [...] Blurring borders blog has a point on it: A new type of narrative is taking hold among the coverage of the military conflict between Russia and Georgia. A number of sites are writing about the “cyberwarfare” being waged by pro-Russian forces against the Georgian government. It seems that, like Estonia a year ago, entities evoking the ire of Russia must be forced to combat widespread botnet-based DDoS attacks. I think there is little doubt that such occurrences will be increasingly part of real-world conflicts, but people are rushing into framing this as warfare, which will only lead to military-based reactions – something I fear. [...]

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