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Tuesday, August 12, 2008 12:00 AM

Cyberwar rages on in Georgia

Government sites under attack from Russian hackers move to U.S.-based servers, including Atlanta's Tulip Systems.

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Tuesday, August 12, 2008 06:55 PM

Wow.

Finally a tech blogger which isn't just giving me trite reviews of different products, but actually covering tech and the news. Your posts this week have been so much better than anything I've seen in this space in months. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Thursday, August 14, 2008 04:11 AM

Why Russia doesn't just pull the plug

As with the case in Estonia last year, if the Russian government were to just "pull the plug" on Georgia, it would face even more condemnation and would show their hand of what they're actually doing. By having an army of anonymous hackers and botnets, they have plausible deniability.

Seeing as the pattern with the Estonia attack so closely mirrors this one, I can't imagine that this is not coordinated through the Russian government. A random army of hackers could not be this coordinated.

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