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How I became a soldier in the Georgia-Russia cyberwar - Evgeny Morozov
- rw 18y agoAll I had to do was create a blank text file, copy and paste the URLs of any Web sites that I wanted to attack, specify how many times these sites should be pinged, and copy and paste a few lines of code from the original instructions. ...
- mynameishere 18y agoThe last bit was to rename it with a .BAT extension, instantly converting it into a file that Windows recognizes as an executable program. My e-Molotov cocktail was ready to go. I just had to double-click the file... Yeah. Let's roll!
- Hexstream 18y agoShould be well-received by the worse is better, gets stuff done crowd.
- dougp 18y agoIf anything this article shows just how exagerated the whole "cyber war" has been.
- fauigerzigerk 18y agoExagerated in terms of complexity and conspiracy, but not in terms of effects probably. Nationalist mass rage is in a way much more scary than some government action.
- Hexstream 18y agoShouldn't 1000 requests per second coming from a single IP address trigger a firewall rule?...
- crazyirish 18y agoreading this just hurts.
- noonespecial 18y agoHow I became a script-kiddie in the Georgia-Russia flamewar - That's more like it. The whole thing would have been funny if it weren't for the actual tanks and stuff.
- tlrobinson 18y agoI read the article and was about to post the exact same thing. I mean it sounds like one of his "weapons" as a "soldier" of this "cyberwar" went something like this... document.body.appendChild(iframe = document.createElement("iframe")); window.setInterval(function() { iframe.src = "http://some-georgia-website.ge/"; }, 100);