The Politics of DDoS Attacks

  • Authors:
  • Greg Goth

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Distributed Systems Online
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

News about distributed-denial-of-service attacks on Estonian government Web sites might have represented more smoke than fire, but it also revealed a new political battlefield. Networking veterans say public officials' accusations can make ad hoc "hacktivism" seem like a state-sponsored attack. When you add porous network defenses and a credulous media, you've got the potential for a real problem.