How I became a soldier in the Georgia-Russia cyberwar - Evgeny Morozov(slate.com)
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How I became a soldier in the Georgia-Russia cyberwar - Evgeny Morozov
http://www.slate.com/id/2197514
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I 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...
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);If anything this article shows just how exagerated the whole "cyber war" has been.
Exagerated 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.
Shouldn't 1000 requests per second coming from a single IP address trigger a firewall rule?...
All 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.
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The 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!
My e-Molotov cocktail was ready to go. I just had to double-click the file...
Yeah. Let's roll!
Should be well-received by the worse is better, gets stuff done crowd.
reading this just hurts.
That's more like it. The whole thing would have been funny if it weren't for the actual tanks and stuff.