At 01:04 PM 5/18/2007, Trei, Peter wrote:
If the Russians aren't behind this, who else should be
suspected? It isn't like Estonia has a wide selection of
enemies. :-)
There are three likely suspects
- the actual Russian government (or some faction thereof)
- Russian Mafia for whatever reasons (might not be distinct from a faction
of the government,
and usually if the Mafia's involved they're polite enough to
send a note demanding money or something.)
- Some teenage hacker who got annoyed at some other teenage hacker
because they got into an argument on WoW or Myspace
and decided to DDOS him (usually attacks like that
don't take down much more than a small ISP or a university,
but like "D00d, you're so 0wn3d, I can take down ur whole
*country*" :-)
The latter isn't as far-fetched as it sounds (well, ok a bit...)
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