The relocation of a Soviet era war memorial in Tallinn (Estonia) to a local cemetery caused three days of rioting and looting. Following the removal, Russia was accused of engaging in cyber warfare against the country - accusations I believe were never, at least publicly, proven nor confirmed by later investigations (NATO dispatched "anti-cyberwar" teams to Estonia in the days after the attack).
I present three YouTube vids on the subject to emphasize the point I was trying to get across with my Burma demo vid - you have to consider the point of view that the story is told from.
Perhaps they're not the best choices, but there's plenty more...
BBC - Breaking News
Russia Today - Soviet Monument Controversy
ETV (Estonian TV report - subtitled)
2 comments:
perhaps cyber warfare is the way of the future.
no, I believe it's very much a part of the present. I think the tactical capabilities of various nations in this field are deliberately played down to a point where it constitutes a new peculiar form of arms race.
There are plenty of nws stories from the past couple of years on the subject.
It's intereting in the sense that, if you read the Washington Post story I linked, this kind of scenario poses a problem for someone like NATO: As the operation will appear completely decentralised, it makes it hard for them to know where to point their "guns".
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