On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Nick FitzGerald wrote: > Paul Ferguson wrote: > > > >So a government order blocking an entire Web site isn't a cyberattack? > > > > No. It is censorship, not a "cyber attack". > > I think I agree with this terminological distinction. > > But would add that incompetent implementation of an order to block > access to an entire website (coupled with poorly devised technological > underpinning that should probably make the effects of such mistakes > much less widely felt) may effectively result in a "cyber attack"... > > That is -- responsibility for the "attack" does not rest with the > Pakistani government, but with some moron at Pakistan Telecom (or > who/whereever it was). The brothers Basit and Amjads
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